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Unforgettable moments during the Obama visit

American security forces keeping watch at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport before the departure of the US president Barak Obama who was in Kenya for official visit [PHOTO/MAXWELL AGWANDA/STANDARD]

The grass will grow, Mr Kidero

The President of the United States of America Barack Obama came by the cover of darkness and when time came to take off, he took to the skies after his meeting at Kenyatta University. He had no chance to see the green City in the Sun. However, our supplication are for the grass on Mombasa Road with the opening line borrowed from Jonathan Kariara’s poem, ‘Grass will grow’...Just in time for Pope Francis in November!

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