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Surprises awaiting Obama in Kogelo as he plans to visit Kenya again

Visitors at Mama Sarah Obama home in Kogelo, Siaya County on July 11, 2015. [Photo: Collins Oduor/Standard]

Former US President Barack Obama is likely to be in for a big shock when he visits Kogelo - his father’s birth place, for the fifth time next week.

Amid huge expectations from locals and grumbling from some of his relatives over alleged exclusion from the visit, Barry, as the locals fondly call him, will find a spruced up village, complete with power connection, tarmacked roads, a towering hotel and a police post right at the gate of his grandmother Sarah Obama.

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