· AFP- A Kenyan lawyer has
offered US president Barack Obama 50 cows and other assorted livestock in
exchange for his 16-year old daughter Malia’s hand in marriage, a report said
Tuesday.
Felix Kiprono said he
was willing to pay 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats in order to fulfil his dream
of marrying the first daughter.
“I got interested in her
in 2008,” Kiprono said, in an interview with The Nairobian newspaper.
At that time President
Obama was running for office for the first time and Malia was a 10-year-old.
“As a matter of fact, I
haven’t dated anyone since and promise to be faithful to her. I have shared
this with my family and they are willing to help me raise the bride price,” he
said.
Kiprono said he intended
to put his offer of marriage to Obama and hopes the president will bring his
daughter with him when he makes his first presidential visit to Kenya, the
country where his father was born, in July.
Obama’s Kenyan
grandmother, who is in her early 90s, still lives in Kogelo, in western Kenya,
home to a number of the president’s relatives.
“I am currently drafting
a letter to Obama asking him to please have Malia accompany him for this trip.
I hope the embassy will pass the letter to him,” he said.
Kiprono dismissed the
notion he might be a gold-digger.
“People might say I am
after the family’s money, which is not the case. My love is real,” he insisted.
The young lawyer, whose
age was not revealed, said he had already planned his proposal, which would be
made on a hill near his rural village, and the wedding at which champagne would
be shunned in favour of a traditional sour milk called “mursik”.
Kiprono said that as a
couple he and the young Obama would lead “a simple life”.
“I will teach Malia how
to milk a cow, cook ugali (maize porridge) and prepare mursik like any other
Kalenjin woman,” he said.
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