No, the Nairobi County Government has not awarded a Kshs. 1,002,390,614 tender to Groveland Ltd to supply office stationery.

Claim

Nairobi County Government granted Groveland Ltd a Kshs. 1,002,390,614 tender to supply office stationary.

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. On May 24, 2023, we called the governor’s office, Johnson Sakaja of the city county, and they disregarded the statement as fake.

We also identified a tweet by Sakaja on May 23 in response to the statement, describing it as fake.

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Tweet by Governor Sakaja

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True

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Misleading

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False

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Retraction

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No, the Nairobi County Government has not awarded a Kshs. 1,002,390,614 tender to Groveland Ltd to supply office stationery.

The Nairobi County Governor’s office verified that the statement circulated was false.

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