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Plight of former Stars coach Mulwa shocks nation

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Former Coach Harambee Stars Marshal Mulwa in Nairobi on tuesday, Jan 19, 2016. [PHOTO: JONAH ONYANGO]

Kenyan football coaches have appealed to the government to rescue former Harambee Stars tactician Marshall Mulwa, who has been living in solitude in Kitengala since returning to the country from Dubai almost five years ago.

Cut off from his family after his wife and two sons emigrated to the United States from the Dubai, well-wishers have been feeding and housing Mulwa, 75, in a Sh3,000-a-month tin-shack in the sprawling Kitengela township, about 20km south of Nairobi.

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