This image on Facebook showing the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) signage purportedly changed to Adani Krishna International Airport has been ALTERED.

The image is a collage of two photos, one purportedly depicting JKIA’s entrance before William Ruto’s presidency and another with the signage ‘Adani Krishna International Airport’ supposedly after he assumed office.

The photo accompanies a post that reads: “SAD;JKIA is now an Indian airport,Kenya has no international airport anymore.”

The image has also been shared here following the planned takeover of Kenya’s largest aviation facility by the Adani Group in November 2024. The news of the alleged private deal caused controversy following weeks of protests over bad governance in the country. The Kenya Aviation Workers Union also protested against the Adani deal, which would see the company take over the airport’s operations.

However, the image does not accurately depict the airport’s entrance.

A comparison of the two images in the post shows that except for the signage, everything else — the cars, police officers pictured, and the angle at which the photo was taken — remains the same.

A further reverse search of the image bearing the Adani signage reveals no official record. Instead, as seen here, the search brings up the original image of the airport’s entrance, which only contains the JKIA signage.

Additionally, there are no reports of the signage being changed as of 4 September 2024.

A previous debunk by PesaCheck, where an altered version of the original photo had been used satirically, also established that the original image has been online since 2022.

PesaCheck has looked into an image on Facebook of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) signage purportedly changed to Adani Krishna International Airport and found it has been ALTERED.

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.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Harriet Ogayo and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya and chief copy editor Stephen Ndegwa.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.

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, visit pesacheck.org.