Senator Cherargei claimed Ruto’s cow gave birth to triplets, KoT discovered it was all a lie, now it’s a massacre

After Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja’s blunder last week, where he tweeted a 3-year old photo of a squeaky-clean Kenyatta Avenue street and tried to pass it off as one of his achievements, yet another public figure has been caught spreading misinformation.

This time, Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has been accused of attempting to fool Kenyans using a downloaded photo of a cow and three calves, claiming that they were from President William Ruto's farm.

While attaching the photo of the healthy-looking mother and calves, the Senator wrote; "H.E Ruto cow gives birth to triplets of his  symbolic leadership. 5 years of backfilling debt hole created by Uhuru + Raila into economic transformation, 5 yrs for economic stability, 5yrs of kenya prosperity of milk + honey... 15 yrs of uninterrupted economic transformation. "

Despite providing no context for his perplexing wording, Kenyans took issue with the Senator after realising that the photo he used was actually a photo posted on Facebook by a German Agricultural Facebook page on January 30, 2023.

The page, 'CRV Deutschland' was sharing a series of photos taken at the farm of two young boys Jason and Jonas who were celebrating the birth of the triplets that they named Emma, Ella and Emil.

"Brothers Jason and Jonas were not badly surprised when their favorite cow Elisa gave birth to not one but directly three calves without any problems. Since then, the three calves Emma, Ella and Emil have enjoyed best health and abundant cuddles and are diligently fed by the two proud brothers from Lichtenau every day," the page posted.

"We would like to thank the Agethen family for the great picture and wish them triplets alot of joy!" they added.

Many hawk-eyed Kenyans, as well as the Media Observer’s fact-checking desk, pointed out the chicanery to the Senator who has not responded or even bothered pull down the misleading post.

A tweet by Senator @scherargei claiming that President @WilliamsRuto cow has given birth to triplets is misleading and false.

The Media Observer team conducted a reverse image search and discovered a post on https://t.co/GWfPHCoAzj that had similar photos.#FactsMatterKE pic.twitter.com/jhE7OPhfv4

Chairman of Senate Comte on justice is faking photos and concocting stories. With friends like these, President Ruto needs no enemies. Senator, you've abrogated the Public Officers Ethics Act. @Aaroncheruiyot

Mnaiba picha kwa social media mnakuja kusifu Ruto nazo,shame shame. pic.twitter.com/RwQuWtrV2Y

Government needs a Digital Media policy to guide and inform @NACommitteeKE , @Senate_KE & @PSCKenya @KenyaGovernors

Citizen-led Fact-checking is the future , reverse image search shows this image isn’t from Africa

Leaders lead by example to tell our own Kenyan stories https://t.co/KHa2R6szyH

Bro what's this government and these jokers 🤣🤣🤣 he even stole the pics and KOT didn't even take long man I love you guys https://t.co/evfzSkBU8F

This is shameful from you and you should style up. We know you are struggling to get an eye of the president but you don't stoop this low. https://t.co/xmu8kzAf7I

Kenya Today! https://t.co/E72hzfV2Uq pic.twitter.com/Z0W9H2InDv

This government is all about downloading photos and taking credit of them like they are theirs
Madness! https://t.co/hri6ERJoKM— Kerry 🇰🇪 (@kerubo_hillary) April 11, 2023