No, the video of two women drugging and stealing from a shopkeeper is from Nigeria, not Nairobi. - iVerify Kenya

No, the video of two women drugging and stealing from a shopkeeper is from Nigeria, not Nairobi.

False

The video circulating online of two women drugging a shop owner and stealing from her shop was captured by a CCTV camera in Nigeria in October 2022.

The video has been widely circulated online in order to create a false sense of security following a spike in crime in Nairobi over the last few weeks.

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Verified Nov, 16 2022

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Two women drug a shop owner and steal from her store in Nairobi

Rating Justification

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

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We reverse-checked the footage and also ran a background check on it, and discovered that the footage, which has a YouTube link attached to it, was shared in an article on October 13, 2022 by Nairaland, a Nigerian English-language internet forum.

We also discovered that the YouTube link in the article leads to a video tagged @Thelowdownstationed. We searched for the tagged account and discovered @Thelowdownstationed’s Instagram account, where the same footage was shared on the same date, and the account’s bio clearly states that it uploads Naija world news.

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