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Mama Sarah leads push for grandson Obama to visit K’Ogelo

July 3rd, 2015 1 min read

Mama Sarah Obama and Siaya Governor Cornel Rasanga on Thursday used their visit to the US Embassy in Nairobi to lobby for President Barack Obama to tour K’Ogelo, his father’s birthplace, when he visits Kenya later this month.

The two will be attending the annual US Independence Day celebrations on Saturday.

“I will use this time to discuss with the embassy officials to include K’Ogelo in President Obama’s schedule. We hope to get a positive response,” Mr Rasanga said on Thursday.

The governor said that students from Senator Obama Secondary School had requested President Obama to visit the institution.

Mr Obama is expected to visit Kenya, the first such visit by a sitting US President since independence, on July 25 for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

Although there has been no confirmation on whether Mr Obama will visit K’Ogelo, preparations there betray high expectations of the coming of the region’s most famous son.

This even as Mama Sarah on Thursday said that it was upon President Obama to decide if he wanted to visit the home of his father, Barack Obama Sr.

“Every grandmother is happy when a grandson visits. I am very delighted that President Obama is finally coming to Kenya after he promised to do so. If he gets time to come see me in K’Ogelo, I would really like that. But he is the US President, and we would agree to work within his diary,” she said.

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SOURCE: Daily Nation