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Chinedu, welcome home, ‘broda’

Maybe, just maybe, we, Kenyans, were ‘born yesterday’. We pride ourselves on being wajanja, but Nigerians have always beaten us — hands down — at it.

Some time back, Nigerians assembled a bunch of relatively old chaps who did not need ‘an extreme makeover’ or plastic surgery of any sort to masquerade as an under-17 soccer team. All they did was fake their birth certificates and shave their beards, then they were dispatched to Nairobi to break the tender bones of our legitimate under-17 team.

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