No, this photo of prominent businessman Waithaka at Nairobi’s State House is not recent. - iVerify Kenya

No, this photo of prominent businessman Waithaka at Nairobi’s State House is not recent.

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The photo shared on Twitter showing prominent businessperson, Crispus Waithaka in State House is not recent.

The businessperson is accused of being behind the theft of illegal contaminated brown sugarwas apprehended on Saturday night, May 20, 2023, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) after arriving in the country from Dubai.

The suspect will appear in court on Monday.

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Verified May, 22 2023

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Recent photo of prominent businessman Crispus Waithaka in State House.

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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. We ran a reverse image search and discovered that the image of prominent businessperson Crispus Waithaka in State House was shared on December 13, 2018 on his Facebook timeline.

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