SATIRE: This image showing a KSh6,000 banknote with Raila Odinga’s face is fabricated

A Facebook post showing an image of a KSh6,000 banknote with Raila Odinga’s face is SATIRICAL.

The post in Swahili reads; “Tushaanza kupata mshahara ya Baba the 5th [We have already started getting Baba the 5th’s salary].

Baba is a moniker used to refer to the 2022 Azimio la Umoja — One Kenya coalition presidential candidate, Raila Odinga.

The claim was also shared here.

Odinga vied for the presidential position in the 9 August 2022 Kenyan polls, alongside Martha Karua as his running mate. Part of their manifesto is to implement — if elected into office — a KSh6,000 monthly social protection programme to cushion families living below the poverty line.

The highest banknote denomination in Kenya is 1000. The image in the claim mimics the new generation currency notes unveiled by the CBK in 2019.

Furthermore, only the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has the authority to print money or introduce new denomination banknotes.

PesaCheck has looked into a Facebook post showing an image of a KSh6,000 note with Raila Odinga’s face and finds it to be SATIRICAL.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck Fact-Checker Peris Gachahi and edited by PesaCheck Senior Copy Editor Cédrick Irakoze and acting chief copy editor Francis Mwaniki.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.

PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.