Mother Names Her Twins After Obama And Romney

Ms Owuor said she would never forget the day of the US elections

A Kenyan woman Millicent Owuor has named her newly-born twins after US President Barack Obama and recent political opponent Mitt Romney.

Owuor, 20, gave birth to the twins on the day Mr Obama was re-elected in south-west Kenya, which is a short distance from the hospital, at the Obama family’s ancestral village.

‘I named the first twin Barack and the second one Mitt,’ Ms Owuor is quoted by Reuters as saying.

Owuor was happy to show off her twin boys on Wednesday when she delivered them at the Siaya District Hospital.

Obama’s father (who died in a road accident in Kenya in 1982) was born in Kenya and his step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, 90, still lives in the village of Kogelo.