In a statement, the National Revenue Authority (NRA) stated that the document circulating on social media is fake and not a valid NRA document. It goes on to say that it only advertises open positions in newspapers and on its official social media platforms.
Writer: Ochaya Jackson
A document purporting to call for job recruitment in 2023 of more than ten positions and several open posts by the National Revenue Authority is a scam.
The document which listed fourteen positions of different categories lacks the date of its official release to the public, signature of the authorized person, and the institutional stamp which automatically qualifies it to be from a fraudster.
The screenshot of the fake document
But, did the National Revenue Authority (NRA) put up that job advertisement?
The National Revenue Authority on its official Facebook page on the 5th of January, 2023 debunked the document saying it was not from its institution; adding it only uses mainstream media like newspaper, and its official social media accounts to reach out to the public as well as advertise any vacancy.
“The National Revenue Authority would like to inform the general public that the document circulating on social media is fake and not a valid document of NRA”, reads part of the NRA Facebook page.
“The National Revenue Authority will use newspapers and its official social media platforms to communicate with the public and advertise vacant positions in the NRA,” the post added.
The screenshot of the NRA Facebook post
Conclusion
The document is fake and designed by scammers to lure people in giving their personal information like contacts, emails, and other credentials.
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Barely a month after the South Sudan President dispatched the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) enroute to the Democratic Republic of Congo on December 28, 2022, in Juba, information alleging their return to South Sudan ensued. However, the SSPDF spokesperson dismissed the claims of the troops’ return as false.
Writer: Ghai Aketch
South Sudan, in December 2022, said it would send SSPDF troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the regional force battalion to protect civilians there. The DRC government, for decades, has been fighting the M23 group. The military confrontation there has caused instability the East Africa Community deems necessary to quell.
However, a piece of information widely shared on Facebook on January 8, 2022, alleged that the troops have returned to South Sudan, and camped in Yei County, southwest of the capital. The Facebook page claimed that their return was due to corruption leading to a reduction of their upkeep money from $1,000 to $500 US dollars.
“#Breaking_News..!!
SSPDF return back from DRC over money scandal
JUBA – SSPDF contingent that was heading to DRC Congo for mutinying on the border have returned and established a defensive position in Yei waiting for anyone who will try to attack them. Source told Phow Radio FM.” The post claimed.
“Each soldier is supposed to receive 1,000 USD as pocket money but the commander gave each soldier only 500 USD and as a result, the force mutinied and returned to Yei where we surrounded ourselves with all the military equipment equipped for the mission,” the post quoted a source allegedly an army officer, as speaking.
Screenshot of the post claiming return of the SSPDF troops to South Sudan
However, the SSPDF spokesperson General Lul Ruai Koang, confirmed to 211 Check on January 9 that the information circulating is false because the SSPDF forces are not yet in the DRC territory.
“Inaccurate information. They even didn’t enter Congo. They are currently processing their travel documents in Mundri East County, Western Equatoria State. Travel arrangements will start after securing their travel documents. They have not even received a penny, leave alone rejecting $ 500 USD.” Gen. Lul said in a Whatsapp reply.
After the logistical arrangements, the South Sudan contingents will join forces from Kenya, Burundi and Uganda as EAC regional forces to work on restoring political stability in the eastern part of the DRC according to the agreement.
Conclusion
The return of the SSPDF troops to South Sudan is false. The SSPDF spokesperson Gen. Lul Ruai confirmed that the peace-keeping force has not yet reached the DRC territory but is still in the South Sudan Western Equatoria State, preparing to enter after visa processing.
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A tweet claiming that new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is from the Luo tribe of Kenya is FALSE.
The tweet reads: “Now Britain has elected a Luo Prime Minister, Just like US did. Next ni sisi from Mt Kenya [Next is we from Mt Kenya].”
On Monday, 24 October 2022, Sunak won the race, becoming the third United Kingdom Prime Minister in 2022, following the resignation of Liz Truss, who had replaced Boris Johnson in September.
Sunak had one competitor — House of Commons leader and former Defence minister Penny Mordaunt — who got 30 votes against the new premier’s 150.
While Sunak’s father was born in Kenya, he is not from the Luo tribe. The roots of the new British PM are in Punjab, India, from where his grandparents migrated to Kenya and Tanzania.
Sunak, a Hindu and former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, was born in 1980 in the port city of Southampton, United Kingdom. His father, Yashvir Sunak, was born in Kenya while his mother, Usha Sunak, was born in Tanzania. The parents were married in Southampton, where they had migrated in the 1960s.
PesaCheck has looked into a tweet claiming that Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is from the Luo tribe of Kenya and finds it to be 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.
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The Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition leader does not mention ICC anywhere in the video.
Writer: PesaCheck
A video shared on Facebook with text claiming that former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said he will take President William Ruto back to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is FALSE.
Shared on 21 November 2022, the recording claims that Odinga said Ruto stole his votes, and as such he will return him to The Hague-based court.
“Raila anasema atarudisha Ruto ICC kwa kuiba kura zake [Raila says he will take Ruto back to the ICC for stealing his votes],” the text accompanying the video reads.
Ruto was among six Kenyans prosecuted at the ICC following the December 2007 general election violence in which over 1,000 people died. He and five others were accused of committing crimes against humanity.
The president’s case was, however, thrown out in April 2016, for lack of sufficient evidence.
Did Odinga say he will take Ruto back to the ICC? We reviewed the entire video and established that the text accompanying it is clickbait.
In the address, the opposition leader tackles the cost of living, accusing the president of failing to fulfil his campaign promises of reducing the cost of fuel and maize flour.
Odinga, whose Orange Democratic Movement party is a member of the Azimio coalition, also criticised Ruto for his foreign trips that cost millions of taxpayers’ money “yet Kenyans are suffering”.
The opposition leader also weighed in on the importation of genetically modified foods, stating that Ruto should not have lifted the ban imposed during the late Mwai Kibaki’s presidency.
We did a keyword search on YouTube to establish whether there is any recent video of Odinga addressing the ICC issue, but the results were negative.
PesaCheck has looked into a video shared on Facebook with the text claiming that former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said he will take President William Ruto back to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague and finds it to be 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.
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This page poses as the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, gathering personal and business information via a Google Form that could be used to commit cybercrime against the victims.
The claim, which called for an “application of interest for grant” from farmers, agribusiness and business enterprises, charged that the move is in partnership with the international fund for agricultural development and farmers’ business network, which targets ten thousand smallholder farmers, women households and youth whose lives rely on farming.
“The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is inviting Farmers, Agribusinesses and Business Development Enterprises with good business linkages to smallholder agricultural producers and processors to offer them financial support,” part of the application post on December 12th, 2022 reads which directed applicants to apply using uniform resource locator or URL.
“We are in partnership with [the] International Fund for Agricultural Development and Farmers Business Network to help us fight hunger and poverty. Ten thousand smallholder farmers, including women-headed households and young people whose livelihoods depend on Farming, are also to be part of this program,” the application post adds an accompanying picture of six individuals perhaps taken in a meeting.
The screenshot of a scam Facebook post
The application URL, which the claim directs applicants to apply through when clicked, takes to a Google-designed document form with three sections.
The first section presents questionnaires to collect personal information (name, email, contacts and so on), the second section gathers agricultural farming details, and the third one requires financial support input where one puts the amount of money he or she wants, and selects an option for the use of the money then submit it.
The screenshot of the Google doc form for the fraud grant
The International Fund for Agricultural Development and Farmers Business Network, which the post claimed the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security – South Sudan is in partnership with to offer the grant, is non-existing. This was after a keyword search on [International Fund for Agriculture Development and Farmers Business Network] was performed on the Google search engine.There only exists Farmers Business Network | FBN, which helps family farmers maximise their farm’s profit potential by leveraging technology to reduce the cost of production and maximise the value of crops.
However, the claim appeared to impersonate the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a specialised agency of the United Nations, founded in 1974 after the world food conference.In addition, there needs to be more information about grant offers and partnerships with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security of South Sudan to assist farmers and other agribusiness entities on its website.
South Sudan’s government institution, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, does not have an official Facebook page or a website; the page being run in its name is managed by fraudsters.
Conclusion:
The claim that the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is providing grants to farmers and other agribusiness entities in conjunction with the international fund for agricultural development and farmers’ business network is false.
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The page is part of at least two others (there could be more) that use the promise of a scholarship to get South Sudanese to give up personal information like IDs and academic credentials, as well as money.
Writer: Modi Moses Eyobo
A Facebook page post that has been shared and forwarded widely in WhatsApp groups about a scholarship offer to Sudanese and South Sudanese is false.
The post sought to ask South Sudanese, and Sudanese senior four leavers who scored 65% and above as well as graduates who are looking for jobs or else want to further their education to contact an MTN Ugandan number for any assistance on the matter.
Screenshot of the Facebook page post
The page and its posts looked suspcious and then 211 Check mounted an investigation.
It appeared that a similar scam was debunked by 211 Check earlier in 2021 which was found to be a hoax. At the time, it was known as “Madam Atong Foundation,” but it was later renamed “Mudam Atong Foundationn.”
The helpline telephone number provided for in the claim for assistance is registered by a Uganda-based subscriber named Ivan Mukisa, when verified using MTN Uganda Mobile Money.
The screenshot of the MTN Mobile money transaction
When the number was verified on WhatsApp to determine whether the number was for official use by the organization, what turned out more suspicious was the individual picture on the WhatsApp status instead of the organization logo.
The same email address [[email protected]] used for the debunked Mama Atong Foundation was recycled again for the International Education for Global Mind scholarship.
When 211 Check engaged the number on WhatsApp conversations to extract email that could be used to share documents for the scholarship, here is how it went.
The screenshot of the WhatsApp conversations
And even the photos accompanying the claim on Facebook don’t match any event related to the International Education for Minds scholarship when verified using both the Google lens search, and Yandex image search.
We also found out that there are three of these pages that talk about the same scholarship offer and use the same email ([email protected]) and WhatsApp number (+256770671123) so interested applicants can contact them.
Information about transparency shows that these pages were made between July 2020 and May 2021 and managed from Uganda.
What is the International Education for Global Minds?
According to a Google search, the International Education for Global Minds is a leading university representative and educational consultant that recruits students from Germany and Austria for universities around the world. IEC began operations in Germany in 2001.
More information about their services can be found on their website and LinkedIn profile. There have been no updates on their platforms indicating that they are offering scholarships to South Sudanese and Sudanese students.
Conclusion:
A viral post on a Facebook page named International Education for global minds and shared on WhatsApp alleging they offer Sudanese and South Sudanese scholarships is a hoax.
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A tweet by Mariana Chep with a screenshot claiming that a Chinese pastor has seen South Sudanese gathering firewood in heaven is false.
“Chinese pastor reveals he saw South Sudanese collecting firewood in heaven,” reads the text on the screenshot shared on Twitter.
The screenshot of the tweet by Mariana Chep
The tweet by Mariana Chep got 14 replies, 7 retweets, and 27 reactions by the time of writing this fact-check.
When 211 Check performed keywords search “people collecting firewood in heaven” on Google; the return is that the incident appeared to have been published in 2018 on the Nairaland website, about a supposed Chinese Evangelist Wang Xiu Yin, who reportedly died and resurrected after 17 hours and narrated that he saw many Africans collecting firewood in hell.
And according to BestNewsGH.com, which also published the story in 2018; Wang Xiu Yin was sent back to life after an angel named Luj intervened by saying it was not yet time for him to die.
A reverse image search of the picture in the screenshot shows it is of Chinese-American pastor Po-Ming Wang of Christ Church of Bay Areain San Mateo, California – United States, not pastor Wang Xiu Yin as claimed. Pastor Po-Ming’s picture appeared to have been taken from a YouYube video of him posted in 2014 when he was delivering a Chinese sermon service.
And also, in 2019, a Facebook page Juba Eye posted the same claim that a Chinese pastor interacted with the angel who told the pastor that those gathering firewood in heaven to keep themselves warm were South Sudanese.
The screenshot of the Juba Eye Facebook page
Results of the research conducted about the claimed pastor Wang Xiu Yin turned out to be similar to pastor Wang Yi who was imprisoned in 2019 for nine years because of illegal business operations.
Additionally, his name is not among the list of Chinese pastors and religious Ministers who made public petition against persecution in China in 2018.
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A Facebook post on the 7th of December purporting to be of a Pastor in South Sudan and suspected to be an ‘Atendior church‘ washing his congregation with water inside the church is false.
Mayom Paul Abol Lok, who has over 4,900 friends and 352 followers on Facebook, published the post, which received over 30 interactions and 12 comments.
From the people in the pictures to the comments made by some of his friends and followers, something didn’t look right about them.
Screenshot of the Facebook post
But are these photos of a pastor in South Sudan washing church members real?
211 Check did a reverse image search on the pictures with the help of google lenses and realised the same pictures were used in Nigeria by a local online platform, Naira land, in January 2022 by ExAngel007. With the headline ‘Pastor strips Female Members, Bathe them during crossover’.
Other sites also had similar pictures with the same heading as seen here, here, and here,
But another site, Exclusive Base, did different research that was shared by other sites here and here. They found out that Mark Mensah, the CEO of Phens Multimedia in Ghana, made the pictures that were widely shared on social media.
People often call Mensah “Pastor Blinks,” but he is not a pastor; he makes skits. Here’s the rest of the story.
Conclusion:
The above evidence indicates that these photographs were not taken in South Sudan. They are Ghanaian in origin.
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This photo doesn’t show an incident that happened in Juba; according to TinEye reverse image search, it has been used to describe events in Zimbabwe, and Nigeria in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
Writer: Beatrice Amude Paulino
A Facebook post on the 4th December 2022 by Lainya TV claiming that “a girl was seen undressing while dancing” to music star DJ Cent is false and misleading.
The page claimed the photo of the dancers was taken in a disco club in Juba over the weekend.
“This weekend at a club in Juba, a girl was seen undressing slowly while dancing to Dj-Cent Mr No Rest ‘s latest hit. The girl was wearing a full sexy outfit before the Dj played the vibe “Let me be your lover” from Dj cent that made the girl dance to the table while removing everything,” reads part of the Facebook post.
“The Dj was motivated and kept repeating the song until the girl finally removes her bra and lay on the table. People gave cheers and asked the Dj to increase the volume which made the girl undress fully naked before two responsible slay queens intervene and wrapped her in some clothes and dragged her out,” it added.
The screenshot of the Lainya TV Facebook post
The post garnered about 30 comments, 33 shares, and 88 reactions as of writing this fact-check.
DJ Cent, who the post said the girl was dancing to his song, shared the post on his Facebook page and reacted by saying he needed the girl’s number so that he could bless her December.
However, 211 Check performed a reverse image search on the photo using TinEye, and it turned out that the photo was published on a websitein Zimbabwe in 2016, describing the growth of dancing naked in the country’s nightclubs.
The photo was also used in the circumstances described to be in a Nigerian club in 2018. And DJ Cent is also not in the photo, which the post claims shows a girl dancing to his song.
Conclusion:
This didn’t happen in Juba. According to TinEye reverse image search, the image has been used in the past to describe events in Zimbabwe, and Nigeria in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
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This was the ball supplied by the Uruguayans. The inaugural FIFA World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930. Thirteen teams competed in the tournament.
Writer: Jibi Moses
A Facebook post by Alàbi Tolulope Micheal ATM, a page with 22,000 likes and 28,000 followers, sharing a photograph of the first World Cup ball used in 1930 is true.
‘The First World Cup ball used in the Final, 1930. ‘In the first World Cup final, held on July 30, 1930. 93,000 spectators looked on as Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 with this ball,’ the post read in part.
It spread like wildfire, getting more than 34,000 likes, 400 comments, and 590 shares. People reacted differently to the post, which could be seen in the comments, though many people thought it was a joke.
“I remember it was made of rock. Very durable,” commented Simon Mukabi. Raf Icon said, “…This ball has undergone surgery.”
A screenshot of the post by Àlàbi.
Was the ball in the post used in the 1930 final of the first World Cup? 211 Check takes a look at the claim.
A reverse image search on the image of the ball using Yandex brought many sites with the picture of the ball explaining the same. One of the sites is Wiki Commons, which writes in detail as this was one of the balls used in there was a disagreement between the two countries and this very ball was used in the second half, was provided by Uruguay and is currently kept in the National Football Museum, Preston. Some other sites also conform, as seen here, here,here, here, and here.
A screenshot of the search results from Yandex.
Conclusion:
211 Check finds that the ball in the photograph was one of the balls used in the final match between Argentina and Uruguay in 1930, and it is now housed in the National Football Museum in Preston.
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