Report By Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu CITY
On Friday night this week, Mama Sarah Obama will board a flight at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi for her long journey to the US to witness the swearing in of her step grandson, Barack Obama Jnr as the 44th American President.
Sarah is the head of about 8 family members from Nyangoma Kogelo village in Siaya District who will visit the US in their private capacity as family members of the president- elect, and will be staying with relatives .and friends while in the US.
And she is not traveling empty handed, as a praod grand mother she president-elect she is carrying with her some very special Luo traditional tribal gifts..These items include a three legged traditional Luo stool (chair), a fly whisk, and a shield, which are the symbol of leadership.
President-elect Barrack Obama jnr has his ancesreal family roots among the Luos trube of Kenya where his late father Barrack Obama was born and grew under the care of his step mother Mama Sarah Obama now aged about 87 years before he proceeded to the US in 1959 in search of higher education and got married to a white American woman in Hawai where he seared the president elect in 1961..
Her effort to carry with her a miniature spear hit the rock as it could not be allowed into the aero plane as it is considered as one of traditional crude weapon by the airport security system in both Kenya and the US. The spear according to the Luo rtradition is used with the shield to protect the world community.
She told this writer during an exclusive interview at her heavily guarded rural home at Kogelo village last Saturday that she was very happy with the election victory of her grand son.
She recalled her old days when she used to sell vegetables at both Ng’iya and Nyang’oma markets to raise money for paying for school fees for the late Barrack Obama Snr, the father of the US President elect Barrack Obama Jnr while he was still studying in a local Primary School,and later at the famous Maseno High School. On occasions she used to carry the bags on a bicycle and rode for six kilometers .
At times, she ws transporting the late Barrack Obama snr as a young toddler to the nearby school on her bike.
Mama Sarah also remembered how the late Barrack Obama Snr real mother Akumu parted company with her late husband Husein Onyango Obama in the early 1960s and divorced her husband leaving behind the late Barrack Obama snr while aged only 9 years, also left in her care and custody by their real mother Akumu were two sisters of the late Obama Snr
She spoke of the mutual respect the late Barrack Obama snr had displayed to her. The respect and love the late Obama Snr had displayed ton her,which was even more than a real biological son could extend to his real mother . barrack Obama snr, she said was a wonderful person and extremely intelligent .
Mama Sarah said she was extremely happy that her grand son had won the coveted **of Presidency of the United States, one of the most powerful Nations on earth, and appealed to the new President to work hard, take good care of all the American citizens who had voted for him, bring peace to the universe and remember the suffering poor in Africa and under privileged people in other parts of the world.
In Kogelo home, mama Sara Obama home village, those who bid her farewell included senior officials of Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization Mrs. Patricua Apolli who leads the Siaya branch of the group to her home.Thegroup’sfinal traditional festival and final touches on cultural festival that is set to take part in January 16 at Kogelo Primary School to celebrate the installation of Obama as the president of the US.
Among those traveling with mama Sara are her son Said 41 and his wife Beatrice, Kogelo Community spokesman Nicholas Rajula and his wife Nelly The SenatorObama Kogelo Secondary School B.O.G Chairman Charles Ochome and the School Principle Mrs. Eunita Obiero as well as Lynn Yaya, a sister to Mrs. Ida Oginga, the wife of Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga.. Also traveling is Mama Sarah own son Said Hussein Obama and his wife Beatrice.
The Prime Minister himself who is currently on an official trip in India is expected to team up with the group in New York early next week though he is not on official list of the Kenyan delegation to Washington DC. Raila Odinga is a close friend of the Obama family.
Mama Sara Obama the 87 year old step grand mother of the US President elect said she was delighted that the date she had been anxiously waiting for had come for the inauguration of her grand son the US President, and her journey to the US to attend the occasion means a lot to her family in particular and Kenyans and all the world citizens in general.
I am sure when he sees me he will be very happy because he will have seen his own blood relative around.
I am also going to be Kenya’s extraordinary ambassador during that very special occasionsaid the smilling Mama Sarah Obama.,
During my visit to Mama Sara Obama’s village this writer had learned that the local administration had issued strict rules*requiring those seeking to interview Mama Sara at her home. And most journalists are required to obtain special permission from the local DC in Siaya town about 10km away before talking to the great grand old lady
It was also established that there had been a tug of war over who should be the spokesman of the Obama family. This has caused a lot of friction within the family. And on one occasion had to be Malikc Obama the President Obama’s step brother allegedly trried to assault Mama Sarah Obama and other family members forcing the police intervention, and calm the situation after a brief fist skirmishes.
The discontent in the Obama family came to the surface recently emerging from a long standing dispute between Mama Sara Obama and her step grand son Malik Obama aged 50 who recently returned from a pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Malik who is a step grand son according to Sara put his own homestead on mama Sara Obama’s parcel of land. He left the homestead secretly in the absence of Mama Sara who had traveled to Karachuonyo to see other members of the family. It is mama Sara who had the land title deed registered in her own name and ast as tradition nor and virtue required Malik to sought for her permission first before constructing any structures.
But Mama Sara says Malik who is aged 50 years who is the first child of the late Barrack Obama Snr and his first wife Kezia is said to have forcefully constructed his own home,and fenced it off and is alleged and rumoured to havesought for cash donations from some Arab Moslem countries to enable him construct a Mosque on he same land without Sarah Obama’s permission.
Upon his return Malik is said to have to have started the foundation of the proposed mosque without Mama Sara’s permission. But she he was only prevailed upon not to take legal action against Malik by the immediate members of the family during BARRACK Obama Jnr Presidential campaign in the US since the publicity could have impacted to it negatively. But she said plans are underway of evicting Malik out of the land in the near future.
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:38:15 -0800 [08:38:15 AM CST]
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: MAMA SARAH OBAMA IS LEADING A STRONG FAMILY DELEGATION TO WASHINGTON D.C TO WITNESS THE SWEARING IN OF THE NEW US PRESIDENT NEXT WEEK
Trouble is brewing up in the Obama Kenya family. First of all there is the fight over the name Obama because of its fame.
Mama Sarah probably should not legitimately be called Sarah Obama. Her claims as a good stepmother to the late Barack Obama Senior is commendable. However, there are contradictions. One of them is that Akumu Nya Njoga, the real grandmother of Obama could have left home because of Sarah’s abrasiveness. She actually remarried. Remember that when Ann Dunham visited Kenya, it was to build for Akumu Nya Njoga a permanent house where she had remarried. Ann Dunham was true to her cultural anthropological principles.
It ia also to be noted that Sarah’s relationship with Keziah Obama, the first wife of the late Obama Senior is anything but good. The two have become rivals. It is ironic that Sarah’s claims of taking care of Senior Obama, to the extent of educating him, carrying him on her bicycle to school cannot be extended to Abongo Obama with whom she has a land feud. And if Sarah was such a good stepmother to Obama Senior, why isn’t she good to his son, Abongo, or Abo and probably Ben Obama.
Sarah’s close relationship with Auma, the daughter of Keziah Obama is at the expense of her mother.
There is trouble brewing in the home, and the Luo community must do something about it. Rivalry over who is closest to President Obama is tearing up this family. This is a fragmented family and Sarah should open up to all her younger members of the family. Excluding your stepson’s widow is uncalled for.
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I run a US web site devoted to refuting silly stories and conspiracy theories about President Obama.
A US web site has published what it claims to be an interview with Mr. Omolo and what seems rather strange to me. This is the article:
http://thepostnemail.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/born-in-mombasa/
Could someone comment here whether the article is a real interview with Mr. Omolo or some fake made-up thing.
Thank you in advance for your reply.
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Where was Obama born?
Dear Dr. Conspiracy.
I have contacted Leo Odera Omolo who has confirmed that
1. He did this interview with John Charlton.
2. He knew Barack Obama Sr. very well. They are almost age mates. They used to hang out together.
3. Barack Obama Jr. could not have been born in Mombasa, because his mother and father were in Hawaii at the time of his birth.
4 Barack Obama Jr. birth certificate, purported to have originated from Port Reitz hospital in Mombasa, is a forgery. Dr. Ang’awa, who is claimed to have signed the birth certificate, was several years gone from Mombasa, and in charge of TB operations in Nairobi, so could not have signed that birth certificate in 1961.
5. The birth certificate is a forgery for another reason. Prior to Kenya achieving independence in 1963, all birth certificates in Kenya bore the customary court of arms emblem of her majesty, the queen of England. Leo’s own children, born 1959, 1960 and 1962 respectively, have birth certificates with her majesty’s emblem.
What I don’t understand is, what don’t these so called “conspiracy” theorists understand?
Would making it graphically obvious get it to sink in? Okay, here goes:
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr, is the president of the United States of America, and by default, the defacto leader of this world called Earth.
The male seed that created him came from a Luo (jaLuo, jaAlego), Kenyan (mKenya), African (mAfrica) man, named Barack Hussein Obama. He was a very black man.
The egg came from a Kansas born, Caucasian American woman, named Stanley Ann Dunham. She was a very white woman.
The place of their steamy union was Hawaii, USA.
They did what comes naturally to us humans as well as other animals. When male and female are overcome by a mutual desire to mate, they just do it.
Ann and Barack Obama, Sr.’s timing was perfect, even heavenly.
The result; unbeknown to the couple, the future president of the United States of America was conceived, then born.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, that Luo, Kenyan, African “black” seed, together with that Kansas “white”egg have matured into the 44th president of the United Sates of America, Winner of 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, husband of beautiful Michelle and father of their two lovely daughters, defacto leader of the Earth, His Excellency, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
It is a done deal!
No amount of conspiracy or disbelief will change a thing.
To the unbeliever, I think Dr. Phil would recommend something like this, that you say to yourself every morning as soon as you wake up, and every evening before you go to bed, “It is a done deal. He is my president”.
It will help you overcome the mental torture you are going through, that is stopping you from moving on and doing something like creating employment for the people who can’t find employment in this economy, or asking yourself positively, “What can I do for my country?”.
In fact for practice, say it aloud now. “It is a done deal. He is my president”.
Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, give it a try, say it, “It is a done deal. He is my president”.
That wasn’t too hard, was it?
Now Stop complaining! Embrace your positive energy to make the world a better place. Create jobs with your millions of dollars, will you.
Odundo
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