By Emmanuel Mulondo,
Master Bill Clinton Kaligani,
the Jinja boy named after the former US President, finally beat the
odds to meet Mr Bill Clinton, who was leaving Uganda on Friday after a
brief day’s visit.
The two Clinton’s at Entebbe International Airport. Photo by The Clinton Foundation, Uganda.
Kaligani was airlifted to State
House Entebbe, catching up with Mr Clinton a few moments before he was
scheduled to leave the country. The two Clintons met on the former
President’s plane.
“There was something like a
room. We met there and he was very happy to see the boy. He asked him
what he wants and the boy informed him he wants to become a doctor. He
promised to look after his “son” in every way. Clinton told him he
should study hard. He promised to fund his education up to the level
the boy wants,” Ms Betty Namugosa, Kaligani’s mother, narrated on phone
yesterday.
“He told us: “I was leaving but
I decided to wait and see you. I want us to do a deal. Will you study?
Are you determined?”” He told them to compile the boy’s education needs
and hand them over to US Embassy officials who attended the meeting.
“I feel good. He told me he
also wanted me to be a doctor, that I should work hard and pass in my
studies,” Kaligani said yesterday.
Kaligani said it not only his first time to meet Bill Clinton as an adult, but also the first time he had travelled by air.
The former President and his
guests shared a light meal, and he also gave Kaligani some presents,
“pens, key-holders and thing like that.”
President Yoweri Museveni, who had met the former US President earlier that day, was not at the meeting.
The boy’s family was not on the
ex-President’s schedule and did not know about his visit until Daily
Monitor broke the news to them on Wednesday.
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