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Mike

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Kenya gags Obama’s extended family
By Agency reporter
Published: Saturday, 20 Dec 2008
The Kenyan government has blocked members of President-elect Barack Obama’s extended family from talking to the media.



Www.allafrica.com reports that the Kenyan government told family members that they would have to ask for official permission before issuing any statement concerning Obama. It said the government would also vet all those seeking information about the family.

“We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information. The government has decided that you should inform its officers who will be based here if you want to address the media,” Athman Said, an Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Heritage, told the Obama family in Kogelo on Thursday.

A proposed Obama Cultural Home, comprising a museum, a gallery, a library and a leadership centre would be put up in Kogelo, Said told the family. A cultural officer, Dorcas Obege, will also be assigned to Kogelo to vet visitors and others seeking information about the family.

Said, who led a delegation from the Department of Culture, said the government had set aside Sh30 million to upgrade the proposed Obama cultural home. Athman said his department was liaising with the United States government to have Obama’s published and un-published materials on display at the proposed library while it would also a video of Mama Sarah Obama, the president elect’s step-grandmother, telling the history of the Obama family.

The government has graded all the roads leading to Kogelo and set up a police station within the home to protect the Obama family after an attempted robbery.

The report said Kenya Power and Lighting Company had also connected power to what used to be a sleepy village. The value of land has doubled in the last few months and several investors are understood to be planning to build hotels in the area, to provide for the many tourists who are expected to visit Kogelo on what will be known as the Presidential Heritage Tourism Circuit.

Heritage minister, William Ole Ntimama, confirmed that the government had decided to transform Obama’s father’s home in Kogelo, Siaya district into a national heritage site.

He said, “This is a great opportunity to open up the western tourism circuit and we have asked Treasury to find us some money so that we can roll out a number of projects that will make this a truly memorable cultural site.”
 

Sandhusker

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Now, Mike, what is the problem with the a government stifling a citizen's right to speech? It was standard practice in places like the Soviet Union, East Germany, etc.... When there's something you don't want the outside world to know, you've got to step in.

You're just being negetive and all doom and gloom.
 

Tam

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Pretty bad when you have to have government permission to speak about a family member :roll: .

This is like shutting the barn door after your herd has eaten the neighbors hay stack. The truth is out because of the first Obama family, including Grandma Sarah, taped interview that has been posted on the internet for the world to view.
 

hypocritexposer

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Has anybody else noticed that alot of info. has been removed off the web, namely YouTube about Obama, alot of links say" removed, for terms of use violation" issues
 

hypocritexposer

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqOLREmCJOo

try out this link, it is supposed to be the Kenyan abassador admitting that Obama was born in Kenya.

It's has been deleted

I think you guys have some major problems down in the US right now.
 
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