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Meet Nairobi cockroach-eater: He chews 70 insects twice a week

Geoffrey Lubia with portrait of Kenya's President elect William Ruto. He claims that eating roaches healed his stomach ulcers.

One man's poison is another man's meat is popular phrase. Would you enjoy a meal of coackroaches? Possibly not, but for Geoffrey Lubia, fate made him do the unimaginable and now he is addicted to snacking on one of human's worst nightmares.

A few years ago, Lubia was runnig his Kibanda business in Upper-hill Nairobi. Unlickly, his business was knocked down to pave way for road expansion and, "I was left with nothing else to do. As things got thick, my wife and children went back to Kakamega leaving me behind to hustle in the city, that was my only source of income," said the father of two.

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