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FACT CHECK: Is this video of a ballot box snatcher gunned down in Nigeria?
A video is circulating on Twitter and WhatsApp of a ballot box snatcher purportedly gunned down at a polling unit in Nigeria. Some claimed it is Imo, some say it’s in Lagos.
Live at a Polling Unit as some hoodlums come to destroy voting materials all of them collect cause the forces where on ground
No Labour Party #Nigeriaelection2023 Ikorodu Ogun State #NigeriaDecides2023 #NigeriaElections2023 Election Day pic.twitter.com/i0PGArd3Yf
— 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓪𝓵 (@BenedictAthana1) February 25, 2023
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VERDICT: False!
Ripples Nigeria found that the video was shot in Ghana. It is a video of a Police training drill ahead of the Ghanaian 2020 elections.
By Olúwatóbi Ọdé̩yínká
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