No, the photo shows an Indonesian man, he is not from Nandi, Kenya.

Claim

Mzee John Kiplagat of Nandi is said to be celebrating his 146th birthday.

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 did a reverse image search on the images and discovered that they were first shared on December 31, 2016 in an article by the Daily Mail, a British news website published in London, on the Indonesian man Saparman Sodimejo, also known as Mbah Gotho, claimed to be the oldest human ever celebrating his 146th birthday.

We also discovered that the images were published on December 31, 2016 by the photo agency Rex Features.

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No, the photo shows an Indonesian man, he is not from Nandi, Kenya.

The man in the photos is not Mzee John Kiplagat of Nandi, Kenya, but Saparman Sodimejo of Indonesia, who died at the age of 146, according to the photographer who took the photos in December 2016.

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