{"id":8982,"date":"2021-01-22T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2021-01-22T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:29:50","slug":"lupita-nyongo-laughs-at-tourism-minister-najib-balala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=8982","title":{"rendered":"Lupita Nyong&#8217;o laughs at Tourism minister Najib Balala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lupita  Nyong&#8217;o daughter of Kenya&#8217;s Kisumu county governor Prof Peter Anyang Nyong&#8217;o has laughed at the tourism minister Najib Balala for claiming that the government through the ministry of tourism tried looking for her to be the tourism ambassador in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the ministry unveiled Naumi Campbell as the country&#8217;s goodwill ambassador in marketing Kenya as a tourist destination. This move kept Kenyans talking and wondering why the ministry did not consider Lupita for the job considering that she is one of our best export into the movie industry in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"629\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/campbe-1024x629.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8983\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/campbe.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?attachment_id=8983\" class=\"wp-image-8983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/campbe-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/campbe-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/campbe-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/campbe.jpg 1468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Lupita has been \u2018inaccessible\u2019 for five years&#8221; CS Balala said and added that Naomi Campbell accepted to be Magical Kenya\u2019s international ambassador for free because of her love and commitment to Kenya.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CS Balala said that Lupita was too busy to be engaged and besides the ministry has been looking for the Hollywood star for the past five years with no success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Lupita has been \u2018inaccessible\u2019 for five years&#8221; CS Balala said and added that Naomi Campbell accepted to be Magical Kenya\u2019s international ambassador for free because of her love and commitment to Kenya.<\/p><cite>Balala said.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>this response prompted Lupita to take to her twitter handle and write..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lupita_Nyongo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by Lupita_Nyongo<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lupita Nyong&#8217;o daughter of Kenya&#8217;s Kisumu county governor Prof Peter Anyang Nyong&#8217;o has laughed at the tourism minister Najib Balala for claiming that the government through the ministry of tourism tried looking for her to be the tourism ambassador in vain. Last week, the ministry unveiled Naumi Campbell as the country&#8217;s goodwill ambassador in marketing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}