Kenyan lawyer offers livestock to wed Obama’s daughter

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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.