By Calvin Palmer
The half-brother of President Barack Obama was arrested today at his home for alleged possession of marijuana, police said.
George Obama was arrested in Nairobi with one joint of marijuana, police chief Joshua Omokulongolo said.
“He is not a drug peddler,” Omokulongolo said. “But it’s illegal, it’s a banned substance.”
George Obama, who is in his twenties, is due to appear in court on Monday morning.
He and the president have the same father, who died in a car crash in 1982.
Several of President Obama’s Kenyan relatives went to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration, but George was not among them. He lives in the Huruma area of the capital with extended family.
President Obama described his half-brother as a ” handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze” in his book, Dreams From My Father.
[Based on reports by Associated Press and BBC News.]
