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For boxing coach 'Chair', there's life after crime

Boxing coach John Ochieng during the 2025 Nairobi Intermediate Boxing Championships in Githurai. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

In one of his countless posts on his Facebook account, Thailand Boxing Club's head coach John 'Chair' Ochieng says thus; "Don't forget yourself. Loving yourself also means accepting yourself with all your flaws, all the negative aspects of you, and all the things you don't really like about yourself..."

Ochieng has a past that many people in Githurai 45 would wish to quickly forget. To him too, it is a constant reminder of how not to live. He's done countless atrocities against himself, man and God.

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