TVC NEWS [NAIROBI] - US President
Barack Obama told Kenyans on Sunday (July 26) that there was "no limit to
what you can achieve" but said they had to deepen democracy, tackle
corruption and end exclusion based on gender or ethnicity.
Obama made the statement during one
of his meetings with kenyans in Nairobi in his first visit to his father's
homeland.
Obama, after political talks on
Saturday with President Uhuru Kenyatta on security and business, in his speech
to a packed sports hall in Nairobi struck a personal note, talking of his own
experience and Kenya's in the five decades since independence.
"I am proud to be the first
American president to come to Kenya. And of course, I am the first Kenyan
American to be president of the United States," Obama told the crowd,
after being introduced by his sister Auma.
To a mixture of applause and
laughter, he described being picked up at the airport on his first visit to
Kenya in the 1980s by his sister in an old VW Beetle that often broke down.
This time, he arrived on Air Force One and traveled in the president's armored
car nicknamed "the Beast."
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