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Thread ID: 19352 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2005-07-30
2005-07-30 20:52 | User Profile
Chelsea Clinton to marry?
Councillor who wanted to marry Clintonââ¬â¢s daughter
By Vitalis Kimutai
As Former US President Bill Clinton makes his first visit the country, one man will be hoping for a man-to-man talk with him.
Councillor Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, who wanted to marry Chelsea Clinton (below). Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, a nominated councillor in Nakuru, says he has some social business with Clinton that started in 2000, but of which the former American President has no clue. He seeks the former presidentââ¬â¢s only childââ¬â¢s hand in marriage.
In 2000 when Chelsea, her father and mother, now Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, visited East Africa, Chepkurgor, then a Fourth Year student at Moi University, tried to make his intention clear. He wrote to Clinton, offering himself as a suitor for Chelsea.
He offered to pay 20 head of beef cattle and 40 goats to the Clintons in accordance to African traditions. He also named as his referees, then President Moi, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake chairman Zipporah Kittony and the Chepkoilel Campus Principal, Prof Margaret Kamar. He also gave the names his two college mates, John Tanui and Joseph Siror.
He sent the letter through then Foreign Affairs minister Dr Bonaya Godana and then US Ambassador to Kenya Johnny Carson.
But, instead of the positive response he was anticipating, Chepkurgor received visitors from the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS). His letter had sent security chiefs in a spin.
It had been intercepted by the Foreign Affairs ministry and intelligence chiefs and he was summoned to a meeting with Godana.
National Security Intelligence Service officers began background checks on him both at his Kisanana village in Mogotio and at the university. They interrogated his family, villagers, university colleagues and lecturers.
Chepkurgor says he chose Moi as a referee because he was the chancellor of the public universities and the patron of his former school, Kabarak High School. And the president was his neighbour at home.
Kittony, he said, would represent the womenfolk since she headed the countryââ¬â¢s leading movement for women and that his MP William Morogo (Mogotio) was married to Kittonyââ¬â¢s sister-in-law Lenah.
Prof Kamar, the wife of then Minister for Trade and Industry Nicholas Biwott, was his principal at the university. Biwottââ¬â¢s Keiyo South constituency neighbours his.
So why did he write to the most powerful president in the world then?
Chepkurgor says he could not circumvent the security and diplomatic red tape to meet Clinton.
"I could not even meet Johnny Carson so I wrote the letter," he says. In the letter, Chepkurgor praised Clintonââ¬â¢s leadership style, the Monica Lewinsky scandal notwithstanding. He commended Hillary for standing by her husband "like an African woman" in the face of the scandal. He told Clinton to consider retiring to Africa.
He said he wanted to marry Chelsea but could not discuss the matter with her because, in an African setting, such issues are dealt with by parents, elders and the prospective suitor. He added that he would travel to America to meet with the Clintons.
After delivering the letter, he was summoned to the Foreign ministryââ¬â¢s headquarters in Nairobi.
"It was a Friday when I met with Godanaââ¬â¢s (then Foreign Affairs minister) personal assistant, who said his boss wanted to see me," he recalls. The minister was not in his office that day. He was told to return the following Monday but he did not honour the appointment because he was preparing for his graduation ceremony.
He feels let down by the Foreign ministry, which he says scuttled his efforts to fulfill his dream after a stab by Cupidââ¬â¢s arrow. He wonders if the US embassy got the letter.
The civic leader, who is still a bachelor, says though he has never made contact with the Clintons, he has been following Chelseaââ¬â¢s progress through the media.
"The last I heard of her was that she had graduated from the prestigious Oxford University and she was going on holiday," he says.
"Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea," he says, "I would have had a grand wedding. I would have invited South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu to preside at the ceremony." A senior NSIS officer who conducted the manââ¬â¢s background check recalls their dilemma on Chepkurgorââ¬â¢s case.
"There was nothing much we could hold against him other than the fact that he authored the letter which I believe is still lying somewhere in our offices gathering dust," he says. "We gathered that this man was a teetotaller and a staunch Christian, who seemed to have been struck by Chelsea and I thought may be he just took the joke too far."
The officer says he did not follow up the matter after compiling the report of his findings. Chepkurgorââ¬â¢s college mates and friends said he had developed a strong liking for Clintonââ¬â¢s daughter and it seemed to consume him. He agrees. He has a collection of pictures of Chelsea and her family. The councillor says he is dying to meet Clinton.
And why did he go into civic politics instead of a white-collar job?
"I was active in the 2002 election campaigns and happened to have applied for nomination without giving it much thought. To my surprise, I got the nomination and took it up."
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2005-07-30 21:40 | User Profile
If Bill Clinton opposes the marriage then it just proves his intolerable [size=7]HATE[/size]
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2005-07-30 21:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE]He wrote to Clinton, offering himself as a suitor for Chelsea.
He offered to pay 20 head of beef cattle and 40 goats to the Clintons in accordance to African traditions.[/QUOTE]I never tried that! :biggrin:
2005-07-30 23:14 | User Profile
He wrote to Clinton, offering himself as a suitor for Chelsea.
He offered to pay 20 head of beef cattle and 40 goats to the Clintons in accordance to African traditions.
Wait a minute, didn't Hillary Clinton make a small fortune with that cattle futures deal? This guy may be on the right track.
I hear wedding bells! I wonder if Chelsea has been circumcised yet?
2005-07-31 00:49 | User Profile
Someone should see to it that the [url=http://mootfront.proboards49.com/index.cgi]"Mootfronters"[/url] know about this.
2005-07-31 02:22 | User Profile
Lord have His Mercy! This just makes me laugh. Just how colonized are these Africans, that they would pass up the women of their own nation, to be with a white woman who is **UGLY AS SIN! **
2005-07-31 02:29 | User Profile
This is perfect. I can just imagine Chelsea and that black-ass Negro driving off in the limo with the "Just Married" sign tacked on and tin cans rattling close behind, while the Clintons look on with forced smiles, surrounded by their new herd of cows and goats! LOL
C'mon Bill -- show us just how much you believe in equality.
2005-07-31 03:42 | User Profile
:yes: When I saw this I almost fell out of my chair laughing, really. You know Bill is one of the bruthas having his office in Harlem and all.
2005-08-01 19:14 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]This is perfect. I can just imagine Chelsea and that black-ass Negro driving off in the limo with the "Just Married" sign tacked on and tin cans rattling close behind, while the Clintons look on with forced smiles, surrounded by their new herd of cows and goats! LOL
C'mon Bill -- show us just how much you believe in equality.[/QUOTE] Guess old Clinton is not really sincere about being the First Black President, eh? He could have a nice, polite, and apparently well bred (by Kenyan standards) black son in law. What's not to like, for a man whose office is in Harlem?
And he gets oodles of livestock to molest, since his wife hardly stands available to his slick willie . . .
This is a wonderful find of a story. :cool:
2005-08-03 00:09 | User Profile
There's a woman for you, Ponce. :wink: