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Claim: An image circulating online shows a chicken head with visible eyes allegedly served by KFC Ghana during its GH¢15 15th-anniversary promotion.

Verdict: False! A viral image purporting to show a fried chicken head served by KFC Ghana during its 15th-anniversary promotion is AI-manipulated and falsely presented as a recent incident in Ghana.

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Following KFC Ghana’s 15th-anniversary promotional campaign offering a massive 15 Ghana Cedi discount, an image went viral across social media platforms showing a human hand holding what appears to be a fried chicken head with distinct facial features, including intact eyes.

Social media posts accompanying the photo claimed that the item was among the discounted food items distributed by KFC Ghana during the anniversary offer. 

The claim has been shared across multiple platforms and garnered over 1,000 engagements.

DUBAWA decided to fact-check this claim because the KFC Ghana promotion was already generating significant public attention, with large crowds gathering at outlets across the country. Against that backdrop, this image is purporting to show a serious food-safety incident and can easily be accepted as genuine without users checking when or where the photograph was originally taken.

Verification

DUBAWA’s verification found that the image is based on a photograph from a December 2021 incident at a KFC outlet in Twickenham, England, where a customer reported finding a fried chicken head in her hot-wings order.

Similarly, 7NEWS reported on December 23, 2021, that a customer named Gabrielle had posted a two-star review on Just Eat after finding a chicken head in her hot-wings meal. The photograph was subsequently shared by the Instagram account Takeaway Trauma.

The image predates KFC Ghana’s promotion

The date of the original photograph is significant. The photograph was publicly available in December 2021 — almost five years before KFC Ghana’s August 2026 anniversary promotion.

This means the photograph cannot serve as evidence of an incident at a KFC outlet in Ghana during the 2026 promotion.

AI analysis of the circulating version

DUBAWA subjected the version currently circulating on social media to analysis using multiple AI-image detection tools.

The image was analysed using Truthscan, Deep Ai, and Image Detector. All the tools flagged the image as likely AI-generated or manipulated, with scores/results indicating a high probability of synthetic alteration.

The results provide additional evidence that the image circulating in Ghana is not an untouched copy of the 2021 photograph.

A visual comparison with the archived 2021 version also reveals differences between the original and the version now presented as a Ghanaian incident, including alterations to the hand holding the chicken’s head.

The evidence does not mean that the original 2021 photograph was AI-generated. Rather, the evidence indicates that the version currently circulating has been digitally altered from an older photograph.

Conclusion

The claim that the viral image shows KFC Ghana serving a chicken head during its GH¢15 15th-anniversary promotion is false.

The photograph can be traced to a genuine KFC incident in Twickenham, England, in December 2021, when a customer reported finding a fried chicken head in her hot-wings order. The incident was reported by several international media organisations at the time.

The version now circulating in Ghana has been digitally manipulated/AI-altered and stripped of its original context, making it falsely appear to be evidence of an incident during KFC Ghana’s 2026 anniversary promotion.