Why This Sports Hero has Become a Nigerian Chief Caring for His Dad's Six Wives ; Kriss Akabusi, One of Britain's Favourite Athletics Stars, Tells of a Life Now Spanning Two Cultures and Why He's Selling His Home Property On Sunday

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When Kriss Akabusi was six, he and his younger brother Riba were abandoned on Paddington Station by an uncle who couldn't look after them. It is a testament to the man that his trademark laugh and good humour survived this early trauma.

'We just wandered around telling people we were lost,' says Kriss, whose Nigerian parents had returned home two years earlier and left the boys in the care of private foster parents.

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Why This Sports Hero has Become a Nigerian Chief Caring for His Dad's Six Wives ; Kriss Akabusi, One of Britain's Favourite Athletics Stars, Tells of a Life Now Spanning Two Cultures and Why He's Selling His Home Property On Sunday

'They kept sending money from Nigeria, but when civil war broke out it stopped arriving.

Our foster parents complained to an uncle in London who came to fetch us, but at Paddington he just left us. I don't really know why.' The little boys were eventually found by a policeman who passed them on to social wo...

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