Obama's Kenyan half-brother detained over drugs

[Ulli]

Obama's Kenyan half-brother detained over drugs

By Andrew Cawthorne




NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he was briefly arrested at his home in a slum on suspicion of drugs' possession.

"I think it was a misunderstanding. I do not do drugs," George Hussein Obama, 27, told Reuters from Nairobi's Huruma slum, where he was picked up for a few hours on Saturday.

"They released me with no charge."

Local media quoted police saying Obama, who works as a mechanic, had been found with two rolls of marijuana.

Kenya's leading newspaper, the Nation, said he would be charged in court on Monday.

But Obama said that was untrue, and police officials refused to comment.

"I don't know what you are talking about," area police chief Jasper Ombati told Reuters, before hanging up the phone.

George Obama hardly knows his brother, the first black president of the United States, who is hero-worshipped in Kenya due to his ancestral roots.

During the U.S. election campaign, some right-wing U.S. commentators said the lowly circumstances of George Obama showed Barack Obama's double standards. But George Obama said at the time he was happy with his life and his case had been exaggerated for political ends.

In his memoirs, "Dreams From My Father," Barack Obama recalls meeting George Obama briefly on a visit to Kenya when the latter was a boy at a school in Nairobi.

"I am very tired of all this," George Obama said on Sunday, of the media fuss over his family links.

(Additional reporting by Wangui Kanina; Editing by Dominic Evans)

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[Masha]

Somebody said on another blog that they to remove him, so that he cannot serve as a plaintiff in a suit to demand to see Baraka's birth certificate (supposedly, a relative has standing to do so).

Another thing somebody mentioned: Sarah Obama, the Kenyan grandmother, has not been heard of since the inauguration. Has she disappeared or has she simply been silenced?

[cjd]

This guy is not going to have a moments peace from here on. He had better get use to all sorts of strange garbage popping up when it comes to his half brother the so called P.O.T.U.S. As far a grandma I don't think Obango wants her anywhere near the press. Also I am sure there is a security detail keeping an eye on the family back on the old sod seeing that it could be a potential security risk. That fact above all others seems to make the story about drugs a bit out of the question.

[Rubystars]

Why would he sue Obama unless he was bribed? Then if he was bribed the lawsuit could be thrown out. So I don't see Obama's brother as being a viable option here.

[Masha]

Why would he sue Obama unless he was bribed? Then if he was bribed the lawsuit could be thrown out. So I don't see Obama's brother as being a viable option here.

He might do it for some reasons of his own, like publicity.

[syyuge]

I also think it all to be a publicity stunt. Some people find their own ways to be at the apex of their glories for few minutes.

[Abben]

I want to know about his aunt if she got deported or not?

[IsraelForever]

The American people had to have been drugged or on drugs to vote for this man's brother.  Either that or the American people have reached a new low in stupidity.

[takebackourtemple]

The American people had to have been drugged or on drugs to vote for this man's brother.  Either that or the American people have reached a new low in stupidity.

   They must have been. I'm sure this is far from the last of what we will hear about Obama's fine relatives.

[muman613]

The American people had to have been drugged or on drugs to vote for this man's brother.  Either that or the American people have reached a new low in stupidity.

Hey, Im on perscription meds and I didn't vote for Obama, as a matter of fact I worked damn hard to prevent this man from becoming president. I don't blame the president on drugs... Good theory though...

[Rubystars]

The American people had to have been drugged or on drugs to vote for this man's brother.  Either that or the American people have reached a new low in stupidity.

Hey, Im on perscription meds and I didn't vote for Obama, as a matter of fact I worked damn hard to prevent this man from becoming president. I don't blame the president on drugs... Good theory though...

In one sense the American people were drugged, though not with a chemical. They were brainwashed into being self-hating from the time they were in kindergarten or preschool.