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Barding, where students hanged at ‘Golgotha’

Barding Boys High school in Siaya county celebrate in their school after their arrival from the East Africa secondary school games that was held in Eldoret

Barding Boys High School in Siaya County did Kenya proud by ending the country’s 14-year jinx that has kept us at the periphery of the East Africa Secondary Schools football title when they beat10-man St Mary’s Kitende of Uganda 1-0 in the finals played at the Kipchoge Stadium in Eldoret.

The school, which derives its name from the dusty Barding village, was established in 1974 by a couple - Beech and Carol - who were Catholic missionaries behind St Joseph’s Catholic Church in the area in the early 1950s.

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