Footballer earns sweet freedom; rugby players get 15 years for rape

Rugby players Alex Olaba and Frank Wanyama in the dock at Milimani Court, Nairobi, where they were sentenced to 15 years in jail each for gang-rape. [George Njunge / Standard]

As the day set on Friday, jail doors swung open to usher Kenya’s sportsmen in and out.

While the court in Kiambu was releasing former Mathare United player Tedium Roger Leleni after 19 years behind bars, a Nairobi Court was locking in Kenya rugby players Frank Wanyama and Alex Olaba for 15 years.