No, this is not the police officer responsible for deploying tear gas against Raila’s convoy; rather, it is former NASA CEO Magaya.

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Opposition leader Raila Odinga pays a visit to the police officer who deployed tear gas against his convoy during mass protests in Embakasi on March 30, 2023, at the hospital.

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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. A reverse image search reveals that this image was posted on the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)’s Facebook page on May 9, 2019, during opposition leader Raila Odinga’s visit to lawyer Norman Magaya at the Nairobi Hospital’s High Dependence Unit.

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Facebook post from ODM

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