FALSE HEADLINE: DP Rigathi Gachagua does not say in the video that Raila Odinga will be arrested

In the video, the DP takes a swipe at Odinga for his handshake with former President Uhuru Kenyatta in March 2018.

A video shared on Facebook claiming to show Kenyan Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua saying they will arrest former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has a FALSE HEADLINE.

The video, which was shared online on 5 November 2022, is accompanied by a text claiming Gachagua said they’ll arrest Odinga and send him to Kamiti (Maximum Prison) so that he can “respect” President William Ruto’s administration.

“Tutashika huyu Raila Odinga tufungie yeye Kamiti second time ndo ajue Ruto ndo rais na ndi atuheshimu. [We’ll arrest Raila Odinga and jail him at Kamiti for the second time so that he knows Ruto is the president and respects us],” the text reads.

The video was taken when the second-in-command visited Kajiado County to oversee the distribution of relief food in the area.

We reviewed the entire video and established that the deputy president does not say anything about arresting Odinga anywhere in the footage.

In the clip, the DP takes a swipe at Odinga for his handshake with former President Uhuru Kenyatta in March 2018. Gachagua blamed the economic challenges facing the country on the handshake.

“Wewe mzee wa [You man of ] opposition, you were a co-president to Uhuru Kenyatta. All those things you are telling us to do, you had five years with Uhuru Kenyatta to do those things and did not do them,” the DP said.

The handshake, according to Gachagua, weakened the opposition and gave the Kenyatta government powers to do whatever it wanted without being checked.

We performed a keyword search on YouTube and found a video of the DP’s full address and established that at no point does he make any remarks about arresting the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya leader.

PesaCheck has examined a video shared on Facebook claiming to show Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua saying they will arrest former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and finds it to have a FALSE HEADLINE.

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.