By
Daniel Oyeniyi
Claim: A viral picture on twitter claims that Nigerian Musician and son of late Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti was being paraded with Criminals.
Verdict: The picture that claimed Seun Kuti being paraded with Criminals is true.
Full Text:
Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti , popularly known as Seun Kuti, he is the son of Late Fela Kuti and also a musician who is also a Grammy-nominated saxophonist and singer.
A Twitter user, Kayode Ogundamisi posted a picture of Seun Kuti being paraded with Criminals on his twitter page, following the incident, where he assaulted a police officer on duty on May 15, 2023. He later surrendered himself to the Lagos state police command on May 16, 2023.
The post on @ogundamisi had gone viral, the picture has 230, 000 views, 761 likes, 118 quotes and 210 retweet as at May 21, 2023.
The sensitive nature of the picture had made Fans and other Nigerians to react negatively to the picture by dropping harsh comments in relations to police brutality.
The picture arose sentiments in people, which made them to let out their opinion concerning the picture, some of the comments on the picture seems harsh, while some are mild.
Verification:
The sensitive nature of the post by Kayode Ogundamisi made me to search thoroughly on his twitter page to confirm the picture, the picture was posted on the 16th of May, 2023, accompanied with an emoji that shows a sign of being in a pathetic state.
The picture was subjected to the google reverse image search, which brought out the first day of the picture existence. It proved that the picture is true and there is no any other similar picture of the image, showing that it is not a Photoshop.
The picture was not only subjected to one image search, it went through the examination of another fact-checking site, with the name ‘tineye’.
Through tineye, it was discovered that the picture was generated by the ‘Amiloaded Correspondents’, an online media platform on the 16th of May, 2023.
Conclusion: The findings through the subjection of the image to google reverse image search shows that image is not manipulated.
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