The Kenyan half-brother of United States President Barack Obama has been arrested for alleged marijuana possession.
George Obama was arrested in Nairobi with one joint of marijuana, police chief Joshua Omokulongolo said.
"He is not a drug peddler. But it is illegal, it is a banned substance," he said. Mr. Obama has denied the allegations.
The U.S. president and George Obama share the same father, but are thought to have only met each other briefly.
George Obama, who is in his 20s, is due in court tomorrow.
"They took me from my home," George Obama told reporters in Nairobi from his jail cell. "I don't know why they are charging me."
Last year, George Obama told Vanity Fair magazine that he had only met his more famous half-brother twice, once when he was five and once when he visited East Africa in 2006.
Of their second meeting, George reportedly said: "It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger."
He has also said that he is studying to be a mechanic and works with a local youth group in Huruma, the area in Nairobi where he lives with his extended family.
He is the youngest of his father's seven children and was born six months after his father died in a car crash in 1982.
Several of the president's Kenyan relatives went to Washington for his inauguration on January 20, though George Obama did not.
The American president described his half brother as a " handsome, round headed boy with a wary gaze" in his book, Dreams From My Father.

@poster
there should be a link to ascertain how true your story is. the source abeg.

It is a true story. But I believe he is been step up, because is brother is president of the USA. Look once I nearly got set up too. But I was lucky. There was a security camera watching the cop. you know what I told him, I said I would be able to provide 300 people who can prove, I even do not smoke. And I watching a security camera behind him, he did not see it, to make him know he was been watch.  So people can set you up.

There are only trying to get to Obama. he claim, they pick him up in his house. They can do that in africa. They want bail money. It like kidnap.

@ joobeel, here is the link u can confirm it. http://www.champion-newspapers.com/sunday%20files/News/article4.htm

police does this in nigeria. they ask to search u or ur home, but along the line they drop weed and they claim its urs.