National Housing labelled the advertisement as fake.
This Facebook post with job vacancies at the National Housing and Construction Company Limited, purportedly published in the New Vision newspaper, is a HOAX.
The listed jobs include assistant quantity surveyors, assistant site engineers — buildings, welders, plumbers, tillers, machine operators — bulldozers, excavators, rollers, drivers — dump trucks, stores assistants, works supervisors, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, civil engineering assistants and administrative assistants.
The advert requires interested applicants to send their application and curriculum vitae to a Gmail account; [email protected]
PesaCheck reviewed the National Housing and Construction Company website and discovered the company has no job openings as of 12 December 2022.
Also, the email address used in the purported job advert — [email protected], has been flagged by the company as fake.
PesaCheck contacted the company via its official Facebook page about the job advert and the company dismissed the opportunities as fake.
PesaCheck has looked into a Facebook post with job vacancies purportedly published in The New Vision newspaper at the National Housing and Construction Company Ltd and finds it to be a HOAX.
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 Pius Enywaru and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Cédrick Irakoze and acting chief copy editor Francis Mwaniki.
The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck’s 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 the 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.
PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.
