From: Leo Odera
The family of President Barrack Obama in Kenya has reacted angrily over a new book to be release next week.
The book, authored by Sally H Jacob, a senior reporter with the Boston Globe, made a startling claim that the father of the US President, Barrack Obama Snr planned to give up his son for adoption.
Obama family spokesperson , Malik Abong’o Obama, described the new book as “fabrication, malicious and apolitical ploy aimed at derailing President Obama’s presidential re-election for the second term bid.”
The book, entitled, The Other Barack; The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father” authored by Sally H Jacobs a senior reporter with the Boston Globe will be released officially next week by Public Affairs Press in the US.“Every Tom, Dick and Hurry is writing the Obama family just to make money out of it, the added in an interviewed published this morning by The NAIROBISTAR.
Malik who is the first son of the late Barrack Obama Snr with his first wife Grace Kezia is the US President Obama’s step-brother and lives with the families, which include his grand step-mother the 88-year old Mama Sarah Obama at Nyang’oma village, Alego Kogelo in Siaya district.
He went on disclosing that the author of the book Sally H Jacobs “come here to get a comment from us and we told her to go and do whatever she wanted to do because that was her right. We told her that as a family we did not approve her intention neither did we agree with such statements.”
Malik made a startling disclosure that the family had told Ms Jacobs to get the approval from the Prime Minister Raila Odinga before seeking any view on Obama Snr from them.
Malik’s reaction and remarks about the new book were dismissed as “inconsequential and mere public relations gimmicks the late Obama’s contemporary and age-mate who knew him pretty well.
The older Kenyans interview felt the contents of the new book are the best ever written about he background and profile of the late Obama Snr.The book, they said had captured the true history picture of the late Obama Snr and will, shade the light of his hidden life-style and corroborate it ,and the same time gave an insight portrait of Kenya’s most celebrated top economist.
Barack Obama Snr old Kenyan -fiends and school-mates at Maseno High school, but who preferred to remain anonymous have advised Obama’s first son Malik to hold hi gun and wait for a while and only to air his to comments after reading the book and going its contents on page by page.
The author wrote in part.”Barrack Obama Snr was born in 1936 at Kanyadhiang’ village, Central Karachuonyo in what was then known as South Nyanza district {Now Rachuonyo north district}.
He later received a scholarship to study economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the US through the airlift program organized by the then leading nationalist and freedom fighter he late Tom Mboya.
Obama Snr married fellow student Ann Dunhum in Maui, Hawaii, though he did not aware her his new Kenyan husband was already married back home in Kenya until much later.
President Obama was born on August 4,1961. His mother Ann Dunhum quit her studies to care for the new born baby while Obama Snr completed his degree.
President Obama’s parents separated when he was only two year old and were officially divorced in 1964.
On his return to Kenya in 1965, Obama Snr was hired by an oil company and also served as an economist working with he Ministry of Transport and later the Finance Ministry.
His decline began soon after the late Tom Mboya was assassinated in 1969 THEREAFTER Obama Snr was fired from jobs after the other and began to drink.
He had a serious car accident, spent almost one year in hospital, and by the time he visited his son in Hawaii in late 1971,he already had deformed leg. He died in 1982, at the age of 46 in a third car crash in Nairobi.
Commenting on the new book one of several others written by different authors in Europe and the US, Malik Obama said,” There are people who are out to spoil our good name. This is a political ploy to demean President Obama’s second presidential bid. We know there are some political forces working behind the scene to support the boo which is being used to fight President Obama,”
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