President Obama
By Mkinga Mkinga, The Citizen Reporter
In Summary
Speaking to The Citizen on Sunday, Foreign Affairs
and International Cooperation minister Bernard Membe confirmed the
report and said she was set to arrive at the Julius Nyerere
International Airport yesterday.
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania was set to receive Mama
Sara Obama, grandmother of the US President Barack Obama, yesterday in
Dar es Salaam, this paper can report exclusively.
Speaking to The Citizen on Sunday, Foreign Affairs
and International Cooperation minister Bernard Membe confirmed the
report and said she was set to arrive at the Julius Nyerere
International Airport yesterday.
The US government asked Tanzania if she could also
be part of the President Obama’s family members during his two-day
state visit.
“It’s true that we have received the information
and immediately we responded positively that we have no objection to
Mama Sara becoming part of the delegation....she is set to jet in today
(yesterday) with her clinical assistant,” Mr Membe said
Mama Sara Obama will meet her grandson President
Obama, who will not visit Kenya, his father’s country of birth. So she
will be together with US First Lady Michelle, two daughters Malia and
Sasha and close aides.
Mama Sara, lives in Nyang’oma Kogelo village, 30
miles west of western Kenya’s Kisumu town. She is the second wife of the
president’s paternal grandfather. President Obama lovingly refers to
his grandmother as “granny” in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father.”
President Obama is set to arrive in Tanzania
tomorrow. Tanzania is expected to sign a multi-billion shilling deal
with the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
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