by Rachel Ogbu
As expected, the report on how the Kenyan football team, Harambee Stars were treated on arrival into Nigeria to play a World Cup qualifying game against the Super Eagles on Saturday drew a lot of attention from both countries.
There were also accompanying pictures that showed the visiting team training by the side of a building, allegedly at Oshodi primary school instead of a refined football field.
Subsequent reports revealed that they received a poor welcome at the airport on Wednesday, were also told their flight to Calabar where the match is scheduled to hold tomorrow had already left, then were lodged apparently in a 2 star hotel without security.
Readers obviously passionate about their team and country took to twitter after the news was published and by midnight yesterday, #SomeoneTellKenya and #SomeoneTellNigeria was still trending worldwide.
According to reports, tweets were coming in from Asia, the US, UK and across Africa.
See some of the tweets here, most are just healthy banters and there were some very funny ones too:
HAHA!!!==> @onefmke Hii ilikua 10-0 –>#SomeonetellNigeria we export presidents to America, they export thieves and con artists.
— the #ComedyCentralKE (@ComedyCentralKE) March 22, 2013
i love the kenyans on twitter..we beat this nigeria peeps 10000000 – nil…#someonetellnigeria — Creme De La Creme (@cremedj) March 22, 2013
Nigerians On Twitter Being Massacred Brutally On Twitter By Kenyans In An Epic Tweef! > ghafla.co.ke/news/events/it… #SomeoneTellNigeria — Ghafla.co.ke (@GhaflaKenya) March 22, 2013
Just realized that 2 entire nations have been cracking yo-mama jokes on each other all day on Twitter. #SomeoneTellNigeria #SomeoneTellKenya
— siddhartha mitter (@siddhmi) March 22, 2013
My God”@ractive_kwamby: Kenyan women wear weaves to enhance beauty,nigerian (wo)men wear weaves to confirm their gender #SomeoneTellNigeria”
— James Smart (@jamessmat) March 21, 2013
LOOOL!RT @evabulence: DEAD“@kingmwal: #SomeoneTellNigeria to treat our players the way our househelps treat their movies.
— DJimmy Unchained. (@sickolia_) March 21, 2013
#SomeoneTellKenya you know all our Nigerian stars, your TV stations show our movies, but we dont even know where you are on the map..
— RamblersINC. (@tee_hidee) March 21, 2013
#someoneTellKenya Who re kenyans? I cannot categorically name one animal now. I dnt wnt to say hippopotamuses nd … m.tmi.me/OQive
— Bobosky™ (@Bobosky07) March 22, 2013
O_o –> RT @ramzzy_ @joewmuchiri @carolinespencer #SomeoneTellKenya the one beautiful woman dey have is Larry Wadowo. twitter.com/victoriaambre_…
— Tim Njiru (@timnjiru) March 22, 2013
Meaning of “KENYANS” — KINDLY EAT NOW,YOU ARE NEAR STARVATION #someonetellkenya
— John Okafor (@Mister_Ibu) March 22, 2013
When two Kenyans kiss, the sound they make is like that of the Screen Muncher app #SomeoneTellKenya
— JULIUS AGWU D GENIUS (@ComedianOfLife) March 22, 2013
This is so mean”@tha_addict: #SomeoneTellKenya They cant twitfight 160M people wit just 1 laptop!lol! lockerz.com/s/287730228”
— d MACK*** (@allswagerrthing) March 22, 2013
Woi “@kym254: LMFAO RT @bubusn: #SomeOneTellKenya USA – Hollywood, India – Bollywood, Nigeria – Nollywood, Kenya? Firewood.””
— Oliver Mathenge (@OliverMathenge) March 21, 2013
#someoneTellKenya Our Super Eagles beat their team to play the France 1998 World Cup. We will do it again.
— Omojuwa (@omojuwa) March 21, 2013
And for more laughs (updated at 9.30 March 24, 2013)
https://twitter.com/SeiyefaEgein/status/314776609930502144
#SomeoneTellKenya "We can speak English better than you" is colonial mentality.
— Amara Nwankpa (@Nwankpa_A) March 21, 2013
https://twitter.com/AderonkeW/status/315019029385469952
Yeeepa “@charlydadon: A stubborn Cyber Virus in Nigeria happens to b d Prime Minister in Kenya's Gov #RaliaOdinga #someoneTellKenya”
— The Godfather (@Ayourb) March 21, 2013
#SomeoneTellKenya Kenyans never saw cars until Obama became American president. That's why they are all sprinters.
— Nedu Ekeke #BBOG (@Nedunaija) March 21, 2013
#SomeoneTellKenya Population of Kenya = 41m, Nigerians with Internet Access = 48m.
— Amara Nwankpa (@Nwankpa_A) March 21, 2013
https://twitter.com/SeiyefaEgein/status/314781726700351489
#SomeoneTellKenya that no amount of diarrhea will make an elephant (Nigeria) as thin as a goat (Kenya).
— Nedu Ekeke #BBOG (@Nedunaija) March 21, 2013
https://twitter.com/SeiyefaEgein/status/314796397289410560
Lmaoo