No, these are not the footwear worn by bandits in North Rift during raids. - iVerify Kenya

No, these are not the footwear worn by bandits in North Rift during raids.

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The images shared on Twitter claiming that bandits are using cow hooves padded sandals to be mistaken for cows in their movement have nothing to do with banditry in the North Rift, but rather with banditry in South Africa.

The images were originally shared by ‘Speak out for Animals’ in July 2021, an organization that advocates for animal protection, of antelope hooves padded sandals used by poachers to confuse game rangers from tracking them in South Africa’s Kruger game park.

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Verified Feb, 19 2023

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The type of footwear that bandits in the North Rift wear during raids and ambushes so that their footprints are mistaken for cows

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 used a reverse image search to discover that the photos were shared on Twitter on July 4, 2021 by ‘Speak out for animals,’ an organization dedicated to the protection of wildlife and animals in Zimbabwe and throughout Africa.

On July 11, 2021, Dubawa, a West African independent verification and fact-checking project aimed at amplifying the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and journalistic practice, debunked the same claim.

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