TRUE: This image shows a flooded classroom at Mangororo Primary School in Kilifi
A post shared on Facebook claiming to show a flooded classroom in Mangororo Primary School in Kilifi County is TRUE.
The post, which has close to 800 shares on Facebook, contains an image which shows pupils sitting on stones in a flooded mud structure, with the poster claiming that it is a classroom in Mangororo Primary School in Ganze, Kilifi County.
Speaking to PesaCheck, Ganze Member of Parliament, Hon. Teddy Mwambire confirmed that the image shows a flooded classroom at Mangororo Primary School in Ganze Constituency, adding that most of the schools in the area are affected by flooding caused by the ongoing rains.
The MP also confirmed the flooding experienced in the school via his Facebook page , where he claimed that more than 30 schools in the constituency are in worse condition than Mangororo Primary School.
PesaCheck has looked into the claim that the image shared on Facebook shows a flooded classroom at Mangororo Primary School and finds it to be TRUE.
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.
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This fact-check was written by PesaCheck researcher Diana Kendi was edited by PesaCheck Content Editor Ann Ngengere and was approved for publication by PesaCheck Managing Editor Eric Mugendi.
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, visitpesacheck.org.
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