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<\/div>The 31-year-old primary school teacher allegedly authored fake death news.<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n A 31-year-old male teacher risks a long jail term for allegedly authoring a Facebook post claiming that Nancy Macharia, the Teachers Service Commission CEO, had died.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n A tweet by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) indicated that Jeremiah Mwawuganga Samuel allegedly authored a Facebook post using a fake account purporting to be that of the Teachers Service Commission, alleging that Macharia\u2019s body was found in another education stakeholder\u2019s bed. <\/p>\n \u201cThe primary school teacher was arrested on Saturday, January 23, at Makutano Shopping Centre, Makueni County,\u201d DCI\u2019s Sunday morning tweet revealed.\n<\/p>\n A screenshot of the alleged post shared on the investigator\u2019s micro-blogging platform indicated that the post was made by an account called Jeremiah Sammy Mwawuganga, to a pseudo group named \u2018teacher service commission\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cBreaking News, Nancy Macharia is dead. Her body has been found in Oyuu\u2019s body,\u201d the post read in part.\n<\/p>\n The sleuths say the post prompted an extensive forensic analysis to identify the suspect, who was found in possession of the handset used in creating the viral post.\n<\/p>\n Defectives have also confirmed that the Facebook account used to create the post was owned by the suspect. <\/p>\n The suspect is currently being held at the DCI Headquarters ahead of his arraignment on Monday, January 24 morning.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 31-year-old primary school teacher allegedly authored fake death news. [Courtesy] A 31-year-old male teacher risks a long jail term for allegedly authoring a Facebook post claiming that Nancy Macharia, the Teachers Service Commission CEO, had died.\u00a0 A tweet by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) indicated that Jeremiah Mwawuganga Samuel allegedly authored a Facebook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}