Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.
The Kenyan government through its Provincial Administration and police authorities in Siaya County is actively investigating activities of the US President Barack Obama’s step-brother.
Malik Abong’o Obama, the eldest stepbrother of the US President Barack Obama has defiantly and flagrantly defied the police order to lower the two national flags of Kenya and the United States, which are flying high up side by side over the rooftop of his business premises in Alego Nang’oma, Kogelo in Siaya County about 84 kilometers to the northwest of Kisumu City.
The US President Barack Obama has a family root in Kenya and Malik a Muslim priest with worldwide connections with Muslim organization in the Arab world and who is rumored t be a potential parliamentary aspirant in A;ego-Usona constituency was asked by the local police chief to lower the two flags which is had hoisted on the rooftop of the Brack Hussein Obam recreational and Rest house Center, which is more or less a business concerned owned by him.
Head of the police in the region Stephen Cheteka visited the place some time early last month and politely asked Obama to immediately remove the two flags from his premises, citing the reasons that the continued flying of the two flags has elicited sharp complaints from the locals and American tourist visiting the area.
In Kenya the law forbade the flying of Kenya national flag on private business preemies, or the bonnets of private motor vehicles. The national flag can only may be hoisted freely o public institutions such as government offices, public institutions, schools, colleges, District Commissioners and Provincial Commissioners offices,Chiefs camps.
Police stations, police posts and army barracks, primary and secondary schools
Here are the categories of public servants who are allowed to fly the national flags on the top of their motor vehicles bonnets. They included cabinet Ministers, heads of sections of armed forces, President, vice President,
The misuse of the national flags can land the user into a court of law to face prosecution and carries heavy penalties comprising both fines and imprisonment. Both to run run consecutively.
Instead of lowering down the two flags. But instead he has write to President Mai Kibaki complaining that the police wee in violation of his constitutional rights. And his patriotism.
The American educated half brother of President Obama wants the President of Kenya issue an order allowing him to continue hoisting the flags.
Abong’o Obama told a local media house that his constitutional right to hoist the flags anywhere he deems fit. He added that the police order violated his constitutional right as a patriotic Kenya who is at the liberty to posses the Kenyan flag..
During the confrontation between Abong’ o Obama and the local police chief, the officers ordered his men to remove the two flags citing complaints from the locals and visiting American citizens and tourists..
It is unclear as to what action the police intend to take against the defiant Abong’o Obama, but the police chief hinted that they were contemplating taking a stern measures to have the matter sorted out soon.
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