{"id":178143,"date":"2024-08-08T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-anti-corruption-commission-has-not-summoned-activist-hanifa-farsafi-viral-letter-is-fake\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T20:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:04:01","slug":"kenyas-anti-corruption-commission-has-not-summoned-activist-hanifa-farsafi-viral-letter-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-anti-corruption-commission-has-not-summoned-activist-hanifa-farsafi-viral-letter-is-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Commission Has Not Summoned Activist Hanifa Farsafi &#8211; Viral Letter Is Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><strong>IN SHORT: <\/strong>As young Kenyans and activists plan new rounds of anti-government demonstrations, a letter seemingly from Kenya&#8217;s anti-corruption commission summoning one of the activists has gone viral on social media. But it is fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/434639121381802\/posts\/1036689797843395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> apparently from Kenya&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/eacc.go.ke\/en\/default\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission<\/a> (EACC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ztCKsGe5ypDaWVvBMc5Pk54faNPPx2S8ppM4uWhwi6x6hbiC7FzkN4ZDP25NEH9kl&amp;id=100080928579155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summoning<\/a> activist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Honeyfarsafi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanifa Farsafi<\/a> over corruption allegations is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/edwin.kiprono.5832\/posts\/pfbid033x6dYxZh2HBzLVW4297w9PjLKrqdYc7nPJHZqijHtycq1VtU1oUAZkQfETm1KkF4l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circulating<\/a> on social <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itskipronoh\/status\/1815634645829955742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wmakora\/posts\/pfbid02PsKiL13rkGicANnX5pVTUXRejbmXhDBR4H93QFVsJYzJAnRz1AF3AaxV8sM6ibx7l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>, Farsafi was to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid038ESa3pqC8eET13yt9TsGzrKuFWZjHUd7ueHDjnryiVFFKaSyVrCmeGnEo57QYyEkl&amp;id=100006980745994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questioned<\/a> &#8220;regarding an unidentified sum of money&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408080494.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN SHORT: As young Kenyans and activists plan new rounds of anti-government demonstrations, a letter seemingly from Kenya&#8217;s anti-corruption commission summoning one of the activists has gone viral on social media. But it is fake. A letter apparently from Kenya&#8217;s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) summoning activist Hanifa Farsafi over corruption allegations is circulating on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":178144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[8956,258,256,10365,6274,6891,49240,48911,430,6097,5747,257,254,10862,13080],"class_list":["post-178143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anticorruption","tag-commission","tag-fake","tag-farsafi","tag-hanifa","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-letter","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summoned","tag-viral"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}