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Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Akbee(m): 10:55am On May 21, 2015 |
-Whilst the President inhabits the luxurious surroundings of the Oval Office and flies aboard Air Force One, his half-brother George Obama lives in a notorious African slum -George Obama has battled addictions to drink and drugs for most of his life at the same time as his relative has enjoyed a meteoric rise to power The 30-year-old, who was once hooked on cocaine, says that his surname is frequently a burden to him As a tall, strangely familiar figure leaves his one-room shack in a notorious African slum this week, a few people jokingly call out to him: ‘Mister President! Mister President!’ Heading for breakfast through his junk- strewn yard, stepping over streams of sewage, the appearance of this slim, angular man prompts giggles and pointing from children in rags playing in the muck. The man’s name is George Hussein Obama and his half-brother is Barack Hussein Obama, Kenya’s most famous son, the first black President of the U.S. and the most powerful man in the world. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186782/Obamas-slumdog-brother-Meet-hopeless-drunk-Nairobi-shanty-town-U-S-Presidents-BROTHER.html
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Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by xreal: 10:59am On May 21, 2015 |
source pls. |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Akbee(m): 11:06am On May 21, 2015 |
1.George Obama pictured relaxing in the slum The two men may share the same father, but while Barack Obama was born in Hawaii to his father’s American second wife, George — born in Kenya — was the product of Obama Senior’s fourth marriage. Today, while Barack entertains at the White House, flies aboard Air Force One and is a friend of film stars and royalty, George, 30, is to be found slumped in his corrugated iron shack which even fellow slum-dwellers regard as a hovel. George has also written a memoir, called Homeland. Published in 2012, it details how he turned his back on a middle-class Kenyan upbringing to live among the desperately poor in Nairobi’s infamous slums. The book’s precis tell us: ‘George chooses to live in the Nairobi ghetto, where he works to help the ghetto-dwellers, and especially the slum kids, overcome the challenges surrounding their lives.’ And the book quotes George thus: ‘My brother has risen to be the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Here in Kenya, my aim is to be a leader among the poorest people on Earth: those who live in the slums.’ In what sounds like the script for a Hollywood film, he claims to have been the driving force behind the transformation of a slum football team into one of the top sides in Kenya, known as ‘Obama’s champs’. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186782/Obamas-slumdog-brother-Meet-hopeless-drunk-Nairobi-shanty-town-U-S-Presidents-BROTHER.html
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Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Akbee(m): 11:09am On May 21, 2015 |
3.The Huruma slum of Nairobi which is scarred by alcoholism, drug addiction and violence - and is where the President of the United States' brother lives in squalor 4.Obama during one of his presidential campaigns ! Such, apparently, is his devotion to good works that many Kenyans want George to stand for President, believing anyone sharing the name and blood of the most powerful politician on the planet can transform their lives. But, as I discovered, this may prove beyond George. Indeed, standing — let alone talking much sense or walking in a straight line — is tricky for the U.S. President’s brother much of the time, due to his chronic addiction to drink and years of drug abuse. Nor is there anything heroic and altruistic about his motives for living in the slums. His principal reason is that the potent local moonshine is cheap and readily available here, as is cocaine, heroin and marijuana. Clearly following the dictum that the best place to hide a tree is in a forest, George’s decision to settle in a slum called Huruma — which is scarred by alcoholism, drug addiction and violence — means his own destructive behaviour attracts little attention. Although he claims not to be using heroin or cocaine, George now spends his time drinking what locals call Chang’aa — a spirit distilled with maize and spiked with chemicals — from the moment he wakes to the moment he slips into unconsciousness. Laced with ethanol, embalming fluid or battery acid to give it more kick, this substance is regularly blamed for causing blindness and death when the criminal syndicates behind the trade mix it wrongly. A glass costs about 10p and, after just five small shots, even hardened drinkers can barely remember their own name. Regular users suffer liver and kidney failure, as well as mental impairment known as ‘wet brain'
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Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Lilimax(f): 11:13am On May 21, 2015 |
[The guy choose the lifestyle by becoming a drunk. It is none of President Obama's problem 1 Like |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Lilimax(f): 11:14am On May 21, 2015 |
xreal:I read this article sometime ago in Dailymail.co.uk |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by hypertension(m): 11:16am On May 21, 2015 |
wike for president 2019 |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Akbee(m): 11:17am On May 21, 2015 |
More pictures: Residents of Nairobi's Huruma move along the filthy streets of the dangerous slum
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Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by SAMBARRY: 11:58am On May 21, 2015 |
Lilimax:I taya o! |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Akbee(m): 12:20pm On May 21, 2015 |
Lilimax:then who took say na him problem be that? don't u know that his political opponents cud have used that to gain an edge over him if they had access to such information before his re election? pls do try as much as possible to steer clear of sum threads..Some threads ain't for everybody. |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Lilimax(f): 12:42pm On May 21, 2015 |
Akbee:Says who ? I can comment on any thread I want on nairaland so long I did not abuse or insult anybody. Again, this your topic is not new; it has been written since two years ago on Dailymail if you did not know. So it's no issue 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Akbee(m): 12:57pm On May 21, 2015 |
Lilimax:I haven't laid claim to it..its obvious u just wanted to be noticed. |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Lilimax(f): 1:00pm On May 21, 2015 |
Akbee: |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Nobody: 1:02pm On May 21, 2015 |
Obama knows that if he associates with him, he'll bring nothing but scandal that's why he's avoiding him. Emmanuel adebayor is suffering today because of this |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Akbee(m): 1:03pm On May 21, 2015 |
lofty900:come on, this is Africa where family ties abound even between distance cousins. this is Africa where every member of the family is expected to uphold the saying"all for one and one for all'. its not really logical for one to compare the Obama cases to the Tottenham player's twitter stories cos they ain't that similar. while the former is the story of a man who has continuously feigned ignorance of the existence of his folks for nothing,the latter tells the story of a man who bought some pairs of shoes for his folks when they had none only for them to kick him with those same pairs. I'm n advocate of self help n independent thinking/judgement.I don't cordon lazy too.A matured man is expected to think logically n make wise decisions in order to live a comfortable life n not survive on the oxygen of relatives n friends.George Obama is a disappointment to his family members especially Obama whose political may hang in the balance of his family life. Barack Obama's extended family isn't n exception here cos he is n Africa to the bone. u wrote that its better for Obama not to associate Himself with him as Adebayo is crying today cos he did.Unfortunately,u failed to tk cognizance of the fact that his critics n political opponents cud have used that to score cheap political goals by painting the picture of a man who cares less about the kind of life his close blood live. |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Nobody: 1:04pm On May 21, 2015 |
Akbee:this story is an old story, I've known about it since |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Akbee(m): 1:07pm On May 21, 2015 |
lofty900:go on dude..naija wikipedia |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by Nobody: 1:25pm On May 21, 2015 |
Heaven helps those who help themselves. |
Re: Meet Obama's Blood Brother,George Obama Who Is A Hopeless Drunk by robosky02(m): 1:29pm On May 21, 2015 |
softysparky: like obama helped himself.... |
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