Ugandan journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo, also in attendance at FIFA, shared an Igbo proverb popularised by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe which says:
ɗan jaridan Uganda, Charles Onyango-Obbo shi ma ya je taron FIFA, ya faɗi wani karin karin magana na harshen Ibo wanda marubucin Najeriya Chinua Achebe ya yayata, wanda ya ce: