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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A Kenyan city councilman says he offered Bill Clinton 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter's hand in marriage five years ago. He's still awaiting an answer. Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor wrote Clinton asking for Chelsea's hand in 2000 when Clinton visited Kenya, Chepkurgor told the East African Standard newspaper. Chepkurgor, 36, vowed to remain single until he gets an answer to his proposal to marry Chelsea, 25. Chepkurgor, a city councilor in Nakuru, told Clinton of plans for a grand wedding presided over by South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "Had I...

  Bill Clinton must mull over offer Former US president Bill Clinton has been offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter by a love-struck African government official.Mr Clinton was offered the deal on a recent trip to Kenya.He was offered the animals as a traditional African way of getting a father to give away his daughter's hand in marriage.The dowry is a very generous one by the country's own standards.Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor wrote to Mr Clinton through Kenya's Foreign Minister.He said: "Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding."I would have invited...

Bill Clinton, used to a warm reception on his global goodwill missions, came away from Kenya this weekend with more than he bargained for. The former US president must now consider whether the offer of 40 goats and 20 cows, made by an apparently love-struck local official, is sufficient to persuade him to give up his daughter Chelsea for marriage. Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor wrote to Clinton through Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, and promised him that he would look after his daughter in style. "Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding," promised the electrical engineering...

NAIROBI (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton, who was visiting Kenya, will probably never hear about it but he's being offered 20 head of cattle and 40 goats for the hand of his daughter in marriage. The 36-year-old bachelor, Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, has waited five years after writing to the president and vows to remain unmarried until he gets an answer. "I am ready to wait for as long as I can," said Cheprkurgor, who is a municipal councillor in Kenya's Rift Valler town of Nakuru. Chepkurgor's initial efforts to reach Clinton during his visit to Uganda in 2000...

Councillor who wanted to marry Clinton’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 president’s only child’s hand in marriage. In 2000 when Chelsea, her father and mother, now Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, visited East Africa,...

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 president’s only child’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...