Obama granny expected in Dar

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.