The National Police Service has flagged as fake a notice purporting that there has been an increase in the number of foreigners infiltrating protests.
Taking to X on Monday, July 7, the police refuted claims of being behind the notice, which has been circulating on social media, purporting that 122 foreigners of different nationalities had been arrested while protesting in the last two nationwide protests. "This press statement circulating on social media, purporting to be issued by the Spokesperson of the National Police Service, is fake," the accompanying text warned.
Although not published on the NPS' official page, the notice bore all signs of a regular notice from the institution, including its logo, font and style and even a signature by its spokesperson, Muchiri Nyaga.
The fake notice claimed that most of the foreigners arrested were Burundians at 26, followed by South Sudan and Rwanda at 19 and 18, respectively.
