The photo is from June 2023.
This photo shared on Facebook supposedly showing Hassan Joho, the Cabinet Secretary for Mining and Blue Economy heading to Mombasa on a private jet after his vetting by Parliament is FALSE.
The post has a collage of four images depicting Joho boarding and disembarking a plane.
The image was shared on 4 August 2024, hours after Joho appeared before the National Assembly’s Committee on Appointments for vetting following his nomination as Cabinet Secretary for Mining and Blue Economy.
“Joho off to Mombasa with a private jet after being vetted,” reads the post.
The claim has emerged amid a debate in the country about opulence among senior government officials.
But is the image from August 2024?
A Google reverse image search on the photo led PesaCheck to this YouTube video published on 22 February 2024.
The video features Joho, Kenyan musician Yusuf Kombo alias Susumila, and a group of associates disembarking from a plane similar to the one on the claim. In the clip, the former Mombasa governor is wearing the same attire as in the photo under investigation.
The video does not provide details on when the clip was captured. However, it predates Joho’s August 2024 vetting.
Since one of the images has a Kenyans.co.ke watermark, PesaCheck reviewed the digital publications’s Facebook page and established that it published the image on 23 June 2023.
According to the publication, the photo collage was captured when Joho travelled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Kenyans.co.ke also published this video on TikTok showing the former Mombasa Governor arriving in Tanzania in clothes similar to those on the claim.
Susumila published this video depicting Joho, his associates, and him at what appears to be an airstrip on 22 June 2023.
PesaCheck examined a photo shared on Facebook that supposedly showed Hassan Joho, the Cabinet Secretary for Mining and Blue Economy, heading to Mombasa on a private jet after his vetting by Parliament and found it FALSE.
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.
This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Rodgers Omondi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya and chief copy editor Stephen Ndegwa.
