Obama's half brother arrested on charge of marijuana possession

CNN ^ | January 31, 2009 | David McKenzie

[BulletBobCo]

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- George Obama, the half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police on a charge of possession of marijuana, police said Saturday.

Inspector Augustine Mutembei, the officer in charge, said Obama was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis, known in Kenya as Bhang, and resisting arrest. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday, Mutembei said.

He is being held at Huruma police post in the capital of Nairobi.

CNN Correspondent David McKenzie talked with George Obama at the jail where he is being held. Speaking from behind bars, Obama denied the allegations.

"They took me from my home," he said, "I don't know why they are charging me."

George Obama and the president barely know each other, though they have met before. George Obama was one of the president's few close relatives who did not go to the inauguration in Washington last week.

In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama describes meeting George as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.

McKenzie tracked down George Obama in August 2008 and found him at a small house in Huruma, a Nairobi slum, where he lives with his mother's extended family. His birth certificate shows he is Barack Obama's half brother.

The two men share the same Kenyan father. In the memoir, Barack Obama struggles to reconcile with his father after he left him and his mother when he was just a child.

Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. Like his half brother, George hardly knew his father.

[svxdave]

Lets see if the Press will give as much attention to this story as they did when one of the Bush girls got drunk.

[philman_36]

Now he knows what living in the spotlight is all about.

[Ann Archy]

Shades of Bill Clinton having family in JAIL.....Clintons half sister and brother, not Roger, were in PRISON ..IIRC.

[grey_whiskers]

Like his half brother, George hardly knew his father.

Must resist multiple cheap shots.

Cheers!

[maggief]

ping

[NewLand]

Nobody is Barack Obama’s brother...

[LRS]

Hostage attempt?

[grey_whiskers]

Like I said, Obama is the country's first black Jimmy Dhimmi Carter.

Cheers!

[hadaclueonce]

Billy pot?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I miss Billy Beer.

[dforest]

Must run in the family.

[WHBates]

"His birth certificate shows he is Barack Obama's half brother"

Funny that we can get his brother's BC but not his. LOL

[chuck_the_tv_out]

[RichInOC]

If I were Barry’s half-brother, I’d probably stay baked too.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"Lets see if the Press will give as much attention to this story as they did when one of the Bush girls got drunk"

[hoosier_RW_conspirator]

My first thought was of the Clintons (both of them) as well. Geez, 0 IS bringing us a 3rd Clinton term: same personnel, same headlines....

[maggief]

[tobyhill]

It's strange that the MSM would report on Obama’s brother having some weed but wouldn't report that Obama himself admitted to doing cocaine multiple times.

[usmcobra]

His birth certificate shows he is Barack Obama's half brother.

And he is happy to show it to you,too.