Kenyan rugby should not go down the cricket way

Kenya's Andrew Amonde and South Africa's Dylan Sage, right, in action during day one of the London Sevens at Twickenham, London, Saturday May 20, 2017. (Paul Harding/PA via AP)

Many years ago, I was a wanted man after I ruffled the muscles of the mafia — the Ngong Road Mafia — by writing the truth.

I was always looking over my shoulder for any suspicious-looking burly man and to make matters worse, there was a lawsuit hanging over my head. My tormentors were Kenya Rugby Union officials, and their lawyers had not only threatened me with a lawsuit, but the union officials had written a long letter to my editors to “set the record straight” yet they did not even know my gender and were referring to me as “she.”