HOAX: This advertisement for recruitment at EKA Hotel is a scam
The Nairobi-based hotel has disowned the advertisement and urged the public to disregard it.
An advertisement shared on Facebook purporting to recruit for EKA Hotel is a HOAX.
According to the advert, the Nairobi-based hotel seeks to recruit chefs, cleaners, receptionists and servers.
Prospective candidates must provide original identification cards and the job opportunities offer a salary package of KSh20,000, the advertisement adds.
The advertisement also includes an establishing shot of the hotel.
However, no further details on applications or the recruitment are given.
Our search for more details on the hotel’s website, its Facebook page and Twitter account, where the hotel routinely posts such advertisements, reveals no such job offer.
The hotel, through a Facebook post on 8 September 2022, disowned the recruitment drive.
“Our attention has been drawn to the below post circulation on social media. Please note that this is Fake. All job vacancies at Eka Hotel will always be published on the hotel’s website or our official social media pages,” the post reads.
EKA Hotel’s e-sales manager Wycliff Mokaya also dismissed the advertisement, terming it fake.
“Please note this is a FAKE advertisement and has not been sanctioned by Eka Hotel,” Mokaya said in an email response to PesaCheck investigation.
PesaCheck has examined the advertisement for recruitment at EKA Hotel and found 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 senior fact-checker Simon Muli 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.
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