No, the video of a woman being robbed at gunpoint is not recent, and it occurred in Mombasa, not Nairobi.

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Woman robbed at gunpoint in Nairobi

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that is False.

To arrive to this this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We used the InVID tool to create keyframes and thumbnails of the video, then reverse imaged it, and discovered that the CCTV footage of four people and one other on a motorcycle robbing a woman at gunpoint was posted on the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Twitter handle on March 24, 2019, when detectives based in Mombasa arrested the five suspects in connection with a robbery in the Aldina & Makande area in Mombasa County.

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Statement from the DCI’s Twitter account regarding the robbery of a lady at gunpoint

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No, the video of a woman being robbed at gunpoint is not recent, and it occurred in Mombasa, not Nairobi.

The footage circulating on social media purporting to show a woman being robbed at gunpoint was captured on CCTV in 2019 in the Aldina & Makande area of Mombasa County.

Following rising crime rates in Nairobi, the video has been widely circulated online in order to create a false sense of security.

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