IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati. A prankster has created a phony page in
his name to try to deceive the public. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
A prankster has created a social media page
bearing the name and photograph of the new chairman of the Independent
Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Wafula Chebukati.
A spokesman for the commission alerted the Nation about the existence of the fake account on Facebook at the weekend.
Perhaps to draw Facebook users to the account, some of the posts on it would appear genuine to the untrained eye.
The profile picture of the page appears to have been taken from images captured during his vetting by the National Assembly.
ALLEGATIONS
The red in the background is County Hall, where the vetting happened.
One
post says: “The allegations raised by the opposition including the use
of The former Presidents Moi & Kibaki's ID number to register other
people is true.
"We have noticed a
trend of such malicious registrations, especially in Central Province
and some parts of Rift Valley. We are working tirelessly to clean the
register of such unlawful trends.
"I
give you my word Kenya, this time there will be no rigging, those who
depended on rigged elections better start packing. I would like to thank
the former Prime Minister Raila Odinga of bringing these issues to
light. God bless Kenya –WC SHARE THIS MESSAGE WIDELY.”
The message had 375 shares, pointing to the potential the page has in misleading the public in the run-up to the August polls.
MOI, KIBAKI IDS
This was in reference to the Nation
story last Thursday on the case where the identity card numbers of
retired presidents Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki were revealed to be
part of the 128,926 numbers that are shared.
Mr Chebukati’s real page on Facebook bears a passport-size photograph of him and the name Wafula Chebukati.
His LinkedIn profile is also similar.
Here are the links to the correct social media pages:
Twitter: @wchebukati
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wchebukati
Linkedin: https://ke.linkedin.com/in/wchebukati
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