No, the video shows a fire at an Italian resort in Kilifi, not retired president Uhuru Kenyatta’s hotel.

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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s goons set fire to retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s hotel in Kirinyaga.

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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. According to a reverse image search, the incident at the Watamu hotel was first reported in an article by Il Mattino, an Italian daily newspaper published in Naples, Italy.

We also discovered an article published by The Star on February 22, 2023, in which property worth millions of shillings was reduced to ashes due to an electric fault following a massive fire that gutted three resorts in Watamu tourism resort town of Kilifi county.

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