No, the image purporting to show first daughter Charlene selling smokies has been altered.

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Image showing first daughter Charlene Ruto running her small food business selling smokies

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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. A reverse image search revealed that the image had been manipulated to include President William Ruto’s daughter Charlene Ruto’s face.

On September 5, 2019, an article published by Nairobi News, on-the-go snacks business thriving in Kenya, featured the original image of Damaris Ndinda, an eggs and smokies seller busy at work at Muthurwa market in Nairobi.

We also discovered an update to the article, which was published on Nation Africa on July 2, 2020.

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