A LinkedIn user alleged that Orji Uzor Kalu, a serving Senator and former Governor of Abia State, is hiding stacks of money in his house.
**This claim is false. **Here is what we know –
When the Nigerian Fact-Checkers Coalition (NFC) subjected the alleged video to analysis on the InVid video verifier tool, results showed the clip had surfaced in different contexts with a similar narrative.
In 2019, the video appeared in the Cameroonian social media space, alleging that the Cameroonian minister of defense was hiding money in his house and his wife was attempting to burn it before police discovered it. The claim referred to Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o, former Cameroonian minister of defense, suspected of embezzlement.
The same video also made headlines in Russia in the same year, alleging that Rauf Arashukov, a Russian Senator, had discreetly tried to burn money he had embezzled and stashed in his office. The claim came around the time when Arashukov was arrested on the accusations of murder.
However, none of these narratives was true. The actual story links back to Alejandro Monge, a Spanish artist who crafted a three-meter-tall sculpture of money stashed in a room. The art was titled the “European Dream” and was entirely hand-painted to give it a money-like look. Since then, it has been displayed in the 3-Punts gallery in Barcelona and somewhere in Madrid, the Spanish capital
Conclusion:
The alleged video depicting a room stashed with money said to be hidden by Senator Orji Kalu, in his house is misleading. Monge, a Spanish artist originally shared the video on his Instagram page to showcase a piece of art he crafted as money stashed in a room. This claim is FALSE.
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