London - A Kenyan lawyer has offered President Barack Obama 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats in return for his eldest daughter Malia’s hand in marriage.
Felix Kiprono Matagei, who is also listed as an Oxford University student on his Facebook profile, said he has been ‘interested’ in Malia, 16, since Mr Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008, when she was ten.
Speaking about his traditional ‘bride price’ offer, he said he had not dated anyone since then. He dismissed any suggestion that he might be a gold digger, saying ‘my love is real’.
Mr Matagei hopes to put his offer to Mr Obama, who also has a 14-year-old daughter, Sasha, during his first presidential visit to Kenya in July.
The president, whose father was born in Kenya, still has a grandmother in her early 90s living in Kogelo in the west of the country, about 115 miles away from Mr Matagei’s home village of Litein.
Daily Mail