Wednesday, July 27, 2005
An offer he cant refuse.
NAIROBI, Kenya - A Kenyan says he offered Bill Clinton 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter's hand in marriage five years ago - and is still waiting for an answer.
Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor told the East Africa Standard newspaper last week that he wrote Clinton asking for Chelsea's hand in 2000 during the then-president's visit to Kenya.
He described his plans for a grand wedding presided over by South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He named then-President Daniel arap Moi and the president of his university as references.
"Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding", he told the Standard in an interview published Friday during Clinton's recent visit to Kenya.
The 36 year old electrical engineering graduate said he promised to pay his would-be father-in-law 20 cows and 40 goats in dowry for his only daughter in accordance with African tradition.
Chepkurgor vowed to remain single until he gets an answer to his proposal to marry Chelsea, 25.
