WRITES Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City
For the third nights celebrations festivities coupled with excessive feasting on meat of the four slaughtered fat huge bulls unlimited supplies of beer, other alcoholic beverage and soft drinks, music and all sorts of traditional dances and songs, the US President Barrack Obama’s 91-year-old granny was taken ill.
Mama Sarah Obama who has defied her advanced age and kept nights of vigil sine Monday while anxiously waiting to hear the fate of grandson ‘s re-election without sleep was on Thursday evening taken ill and hospitalized.
Family sources said she needed a minor surgery on her hand. The operation which took an hour-long was conduct at Bama Hospital in Siaya town about 10 kilometers away from her Alego-Kogelo Nyang’oma home.
Doctors at the hospital confirmed that the granny was driven into the facility by her son Said Obama in the company of her daughter Massat Obama at about 6.30 PM [local Kenyan time].
After the successful operation which last or an hour Mama Sarah Obama was driven back tom her Kogelo village home where she is currently recuperating.Her condition was said to be stable, though the doctors who carried out the surgery declined to divulge more details about her ailment.
Impeccable sources told this writer that the pain in Mama Sara Obama’s hand may have been triggered by dancing and wielding here walking [support} stick for long dancing celebrating her grandson Obama’s poll victory in the just ended US Presidential elections.
But the celebrations continue uninterrupted because the huge crowd of relatives, friend and well wishers who had converged in Kogelo was not immediately informed that Mama Sarah had been taken ill and the dancing continued unabated.
Said Obama hinted that the family was planning a trip to the US to join President Obama in celebrating his election victory.
The 91-year-old Obamas’s step grand mother’s health has of late been subject to a lot of speculations and rumors. Earlier this year, she spent several days at the Aga Khan hospital in Kisumu City where she was treated for undisclosed ailment.
She was at one time involved in a motor accident, but escaped with shock and minor injuries after her care skidded and rolled several time on the Kisumu-Siaya road.
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