Siaya prepares for Obama visit even though K'ogelo out of program

Comedians Lawrence Oyange(right) and Milton Obote (centre) sells US President Obarack Obama branded branded T-shirts in Kisumu yesterday. Obama is expected to visit the country later this month. The T-shirts are retailing for Sh 1500 each. 08/07/15. [PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD]

 

As the nation awaits the visit of US President Barack Obama, Siaya County, his father’s birthplace, has not been left out of preparations to welcome ‘its favourite son’. Obama’s visit, they say, is a second blessing coming after Oscar winning actress Lupita Nyong’o visited to her father’s birthplace earlier this month for the first time since she won the coveted award. The region is already laying down the red carpet for Obama despite a statement from the US embassy that he will not make the trip to his father’s ancestral home where his grandmother Sarah Obama lives. The US ambassador to Kenya, Mr Robert F. Godec, said on a KTN talk show that Obama would not be visiting K’ogelo Village in Siaya County.