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When a long lost Mau Mau general, Stanley Mathenge Mirugi was 'discovered' in Ethiopia and brought home on May 30, 2003, there were celebrations.
But Mwai Kibaki's government suffered international embarrassment when it turned out that the country had feted an illiterate Ethiopian peasant -Lemma Ato Ayanu.
The egg on the face of government in Nairobi is, however, incomparable to what happened to one of Africa's worst dictator, Jean Bedel Bokassa after he was given a 17-year-old Vietnamese street girl and told she was his long lost daughter, Martine.
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