No, the video shows a Congolese film, not the wife of a Congolese Army Lt . gen. dragging her husband.

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Video of the wife of Congolese Army Lieutenant General dragging her husband, whom she accuses of cheating.

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. A reverse search reveals that the footage shared is from The Conquest, a Congolese film that is always uploaded in the form of episodes on Dinana the sweet official’s YouTube channel. The specific episode was posted on YouTube on March 29, 2023, from minute 22:43 to minute 24:22.

We also discovered that Lieutenant General Christian Tshiwewe Songesha is the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the title given to the commander of the DRC’s armed forces, and that he is not the person allegedly dragged in the video shared.

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No, the video shows a Congolese film, not the wife of a Congolese Army Lt . gen. dragging her husband.

Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko’s video of a woman purported to be the wife of a Congolese Army Lieutenant General dragging her husband, whom she accuses of cheating, is untrue, as is the video of a Congolese film, which is always uploaded on YouTube in the form of episodes.

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