{"id":135479,"date":"2015-07-17T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T10:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135479"},"modified":"2015-07-17T10:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T10:59:59","slug":"obama-wont-visit-his-ancestral-home-during-kenya-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=135479","title":{"rendered":"Obama won&#8217;t visit his ancestral home during Kenya trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama will not visit his ancestral home in Kogelo village when he comes to Kenya next week.<\/p>\n<p>US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec says Obama\u2019s itinerary will be limited to the capital, Nairobi where he will officiate the opening of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that unfortunately President Barrack Obama will not travel to Kogelo during his visit to Kenya,\u201d Godec said on Thursday night at KTN\u2019s Jeff Koinange Live programme where he made the revelation, dashing hopes for Kogelo residents who expected him to pay them a visit. He did not give reasons.<\/p>\n<p>There have been pleas from the residents for Obama to pay them a visit, including his grandmother Mama Sarah Obama who recently placed the request to the ambassador. He last visited Kogelo in 2006 when he was Illinois Senator.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is expected in the country on Friday next week, the first ever visit by a sitting US President.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0capitalfm.co.ke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama will not visit his ancestral home in Kogelo village when he comes to Kenya next week. US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec says Obama\u2019s itinerary will be limited to the capital, Nairobi where he will officiate the opening of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). \u201cI can confirm that unfortunately President Barrack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":135481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-135479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}