Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City
A family member of the US President Barrack Obama based in Kenya is embroiled in a controversial legal tussle before a Nairobi court where his girl friend has accused him of forcefully snatching her three year old child.
The court heard that George Obama who is a half-brother of the US President Barrack Obama had planned to take the child to the US without the consent of his mother.
George Obama the 30 year –old step-brother of the US President Barack Obama is facing a legal suit filed in a Nairobi court by his girl friend Anne Nyawira who is the mother of the three year old boy.
Anne Nyawira claimed in suit papers filed in the court that on October 6,2012 forcefully snatched and took away the child from her custody without her consent from Huruma Estate, a suburb of the Kenyan capital City, Nairobi where they were celebrating the child’s third year birth day.
Nyawira alleged that Obama wanted to sneak the boy out of Kenya and take him to the US. Obama was ordered by the court to present the boy to the court on October 31st,2012.
The court also issued an order legally stopping Obama from unlawfully removing the boy out of the country {Kenya}
Nyawira is unmarried woman moved to court after failing to trace her child since last weekend when Obama allegedly took the boy away pretending he was gong to buy him birthday present.
According to court papers the two got into a “come-we stay‘ kind of union temporary marriage arrangement in 2008 without celebrating any formal marriage
Nyawira’s lawyer John Chigiti told the court that Obama planned to take the boy to the US where his mother lives. The defendant [Obama} had informed Nyawira that he wanted to take the child to the US his mother where education is free . The suit come at the time when Obama was reportedly busy processing the child’s travelling documents for the US trip and unless he was stopped by the court, he was likely to execute his plans which will work against the “best interests of the child,” Nyawira states in the plaint filed in the court.
The lawyer said the whereabouts of the child at the moment was unknown.
The complainant says George Obama went to her rented house in Huruma Estate on October 6, in taxi cab and insisted that he wanted to buy the child a birthday present.,
She,however, reluctantly allowed him to go with the boy but on strict condition that the child was to be accompanied by his grandmother and her sister that he was to return the child to her to her house the same day. But when they got into the taxi, Obama violently and forcefully threw the child’s grandmother and his ant out and speed away in the car with the child inside. And drove to an unknown destination with the boy.
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