TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Can't have them keep running their mouth off about how President-alleged Barry was born there...

From the most widely-read newspaper in Nigeria, Punch 20 Dec 2008:

"The Kenyan government has blocked members of President-elect Barack Obama’s extended family from talking to the media.

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 [sic] the Obama family.

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Labels: obama, police state

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