On Thursday, March 30, a fake press release from the US Treasury sanctioning Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung'wah was widely shared on social media by Kenyans.
According to the document, Rigath and Ichung'wah were barred from travelling to the United States due to the March 27 raid on the Kenyatta family-owned Northlands City Project.
CS Trade Moses Kuria and Ndindi Nyoro, MP for Kiharu, were also named.
Waza news however, discovered that the press statement needed to be corrected after searching the US Treasury's official website.
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According to the forged statement, the sanctions were imposed on March 29.
It was determined that the US Treasury issued only four statements on Wednesday, which addressed the US government's economic policies.
The US Treasury, on the other hand, can only impose economic and trade sanctions based on a limited set of offences.
In addition, unlike the raid on the Northlands farm, the offences must directly impact the United States.
"The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of Treasury organises and upholds economic and trade fines based on US foreign policy and national security objectives against specific target foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, and global narcotics smugglers."
Waza.co.ke also searched the names of those mentioned in the sanctioned list, but they were still waiting for their names to come up.
The US Embassy in the Philippines also flagged the screenshot as fake.
Kenya Kwanza leaders also distanced themselves from the raid on former President Uhuru Kenyatta's farm.
Goons raided the farm along the Eastern Bypass, looting sheep worth Ksh70 million and destroying an unknown number of trees.
Police have yet to issue an update on the status of their investigations.
