No, the image shared is not of the crowd present at Kamukunji grounds on December 7, 2022 for Azimio’s rally. - iVerify Kenya

No, the image shared is not of the crowd present at Kamukunji grounds on December 7, 2022 for Azimio’s rally.

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The photo was taken at Kamukunji grounds in May 2022 during a campaign rally for Azimio Presidential candidate Raila Odinga in preparation for the August 9 polls, not at the legislator’s recent public consultative meeting on December 7, 2022, aimed at sharing views on the state of affairs in the country.

Among those accompanying the ODM leader were Nairobi gubernatorial aspirant Polycarp Igathe, Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris, and NARC-Kenya leader Martha Karua.

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A large crowd gathers at Kamukunji grounds for ODM leader Raila Odinga’s Azimio La Umoja rally.

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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 ran a reverse image search on the image and discovered that it was first shared on a tweet by Kamkunji MP Yusuf Hassan Abdi on May 15, 2022, when ODM leader Raila Odinga took his campaigns to Kamukunji grounds in a bid for votes ahead of the August 9 elections.

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