George Hussein Obama lives in a Nairobi slum...
(reminds me a bit of "Obamaville"- US tent cities)

far from the lavish life his brother lives in the White House.

Mail Online by Andrew Malone (excerpts):
* While the president inhabits the luxurious surroundings of the Oval Office and flies aboard Air Force One, his half-brother George Hussein Obama lives in a notorious African slum.

As a tall, strangely familiar figure leaves his one-room shack in a notorious African slum this week, a few people jokingly call out to him, "Mister President, Mister President!"

Heading for breakfast through his junk-strewn yard, stepping over streams of sewage, the appearance of this slim, angular man prompts giggles and pointing from children in rags playing in muck.  The man's name is George Hussein Obama and his half-brother is Barack Hussein Obama, Kenya's most famous son, the first black president of the US and lauded to be the most powerful man in the world. 

Barack Obama was born to his father's second wife and George Obama was born to his father's fourth wife. 

While Barack Obama entertains at the White House, flies aboard Air Force One and is friend of film stars and royalty; George, 30, is to be found slumped in his corrugated iron shack, which even fellow slum dwellers regard as a hovel. 

Details of his unorthodox lifestyle emerged with news that he has agreed to appear in a documentary film being made by one of Barack Obama's most trenchant critics.  Called "2016" and directed by the production team behind "Schindler's List," the film sets out the horrors of another four years of Obama in office, though George does not criticize the president on screen.  It is the idea of US author Dinesh D'Souza, whose book "The Roots of Obama's Rage" paints a deeply unflattering portrait of the "narcissistic" president.

George Obama has written a memoir called "Homeland."  Published in 2012, it details how he turned his back on a middle-class Kenyan upbringing to live among the desperately poor in Nairobi's infamous slums.  The book's precis tells us:  "George chooses to live in the Nairobi ghetto, where he works to help the ghetto dwellers, and especially the slum kids overcome the challenges surrounding their lives." 

The book quotes George thus:  "My brother has risen to be the leader of the most powerful country in the world.  Here in Kenya, my aim is to be a leader among the poorest people on earth, those who live in the slums."  He claims to have been the driving force behind the transformation of a slum football team into one of the top sides in Kenya, known as Obama's Champs.

Such, apparently, is his devotion to good works that many Kenyans want George to stand for president, believing anyone sharing the name and blood of the most powerful politician on the planet can transform their lives. 

But, as I discovered, this may prove beyond George.  Indeed, standing - let alone talking much sense or walking in a straight line - is tricky for the US President's brother much of the time, due to his chronic addiction to drink and years of drug abuse; nor is there anything heroic or altruistic about his motives for living in the slums.  His principal reason is that the potent local moonshine is cheap and readily available here, as is cocaine, heroine and marijuana. 

Clearly following the dictum that the best place to hide a tree is in a forest, George's decision to settle in a slum called Huruma - which is scarred by alcoholism, drug addiction and violence - means his own destructive behavior attracts little attention.  Although he claims not to be using heroine or cocaine, George now spends his time drinking what locals call Chang'aa - a spirit distilled with maize and spiked with chemicals - from the moment he wakes to the moment he slips into unconsciousness.  Laced with ethanol, embalming fluid, or battery acid to give it more kick, this substance is regularly blamed for causing blindness and death when the criminal syndicates behind the trade mix it incorrectly.  A glass costs about 10p and after just five small shots, even hardened drinkers can barely remember their own name.  Regular users suffer liver and kidney failure, as well as mental impairment known as "wet brain."

When I track George down early one morning to find out about his life, he's already been for a liquid breakfast at the nearest Chang'aa den, where prostitutes are also on the menu in a bed kept at the back.  Introductions are made by George's "security man," a red-eyed slum dweller and fellow heavy drinker, who drags George out of the den, shouting at him to come and see the "muzungu" (white man) outside. 

After shaking hands, I make a mistake.  I invite George to lunch at my hotel.  For the next two days, he lays siege to my minibar, invites a succession of girlfriends and "security advisers" to wine and dine at my expense, and behaves like he is a famous, spoiled celebrity.  He also repeatedly demands "kitu kidogo" - Swahili for something small, which of course means something large and financial - and is appalled when I refuse to hand out cash to his assorted girlfriends. 

"People are only interested in me because of my brother," he sighs, slurping a double Johnnie-Walker, with a beer chaser - one of many.  I hate it.  People all want me to be someone else." 

George first met his now-famous sibling in a playground when he was at primary school.  Barack was a young visitor to Nairobi just a few years after their father died in a car crash.  George recalls he was playing football when his brother arrived to say hello.  The second time their paths crossed was when Obama  - then a Senator - was on a tour of East Africa in 2006, and visited Nairobi to see his family.  They shook hands - the two utterly different worlds they inhabited coming together under the African sun. 

"He is an inspiration," George observes.  "We have met a couple of times.  We do speak...he is my brother."

As for the president, he mentions George in his autobiography "Dreams From My Father," saying he is a "beautiful boy," but admits that when they met as adults in Kenya, "It was like meeting a complete stranger." 

George says, apparently without a shred of self-awareness, that he is under pressure to follow his older brother's footsteps into politics.  "I have got a lot of people telling me to stand as a member of parliament, but I am not interested in politics."  Then he pauses and adds, "But if Barack was president and I was president of Kenya, it would be easier to meet."  He says it is only his poverty that prevents the two of them having a closer relationship.  "He's got responsibilities; he's not supposed to take care of me," he says.  "I am an adult.  Everyone thinks he sends me cash, but I'm not a beggar."  Asked if he'd take cash if Obama offered it, George smiled and said, "Seriously!  Yes!  Who wouldn't?"

Though he is consumed with self pity about his plight, he is officially the coordinator of Huruma Football Club, a township team made up of orphans, former prisoners and reformed drug addicts.

This is just a title.  In reality, he spends virtually every day getting drunk or sleeping off the effects.  So, where did it all go wrong for the 30-year-old?  George is following something of a family tradition.  The father he and the president share was also a notorious drunk and habitue of township Chang'aa bars.  He too had a good start in life, born into a family near Lake Victoria - the brothers' father - also Barack - was a brilliant student.  He became the first African to win a scholarship at a prestigious university in Hawaii.  It was on the American Island that Barack Senior met Ann Dunham, an American academic and anthropologist.  Despite the fact that he was already married to a woman in Kenya, he claimed, dishonestly, that he was divorced.  He married Ann in 1961, when she was already three months pregnant with Barack; but when Obama Senior pursued his studies at Harvard, he continued to have affairs and split from Ann in 1964.  Eventually, he returned to Kenya, leaving Barack in Hawaii, and his heavy drinking spiraled out of control.  After fathering George with his fourth wife Jael in Kenya, he died six months after the birth in a car crash in 1982.

Barack escaped his father's curse.  The turning point came one night when, after a college party involving drink and drugs, a female friend scolded him for being self-obsessed and told the future US President that "life isn't just about you."   He gave up drugs, vowing not to repeat the mistakes of his father.  Sadly, there seems little hope of a similar ending for George. 

Despite his claims that he chooses to stay in his one-room shack, he is only there because he has spent all of his money.  Friends tell me he used to live in a much bigger house in a better area and he is given the room in Huruma now for free out of charity because he is "down on his luck." 

All the people in the township know George as a drunk, for all his claims to be a practicing Muslim, and friends have urged him to seek help.  "He's a madman, really ill, but he doesn't know he is," says Tony, from the football club.  "He's in black-out most of the time.  We hope the Obama name will help our area, but George seems cursed." 

Sure enough, when we met the next day, George is drunk and obnoxious after another breakfast of "kill-me-quick," slang for Chang'aa. 

Shamir, his two year old son, born to one of his string of girlfriends, wanders into the Chang'aa den and sits beside me.  We do "high-fives."  George lurches off and disappears in the maze of shacks and alleys, swallowed up by the slum.  His son is taken to be looked after by local women. 

Commentary:  This has to be one of the saddest stories I have ever heard, at least among the US presidential elite.  For Barack Obama to have a brother living in these conditions in Kenya, without a helping hand of intervention or goodwill seems near criminal, given the power and ability the man wields. 

It is surprising to see that the Bilderbergs didn't take care of "the brother" in their scheme of things.  

If Obama offered his brother an option for a fresh start, rehabilitation and support, what do you think are the chances he would decline?  Obama doesn't seem to care about his failing half-brother, or his apparent need for the crucial necessities of life.  It has been reported that Obama attended the Bohemian "Cremation of Care" in 2008.  That certainly would help to callous him up to the cries of anyone, even his own brother.

Jesus said, "Nothing is secret that shall not be manifested, neither anything hid that shall not be known and come abroad" Luke 8:17.

Jesus also said this, "Then He (God) shall say to them on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: I was hungry and you gave me no meat, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not take me in, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.  Then they will answer Him and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, thirsty, a stranger, naked, sick, or in prison and did not minister to you?'  Then He will answer them, saying, 'Truly I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.  And these will go away to everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal" Matthew 25:41-46. 

"Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished" Ecclesiastes 4:13.  "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people" Proverbs 14:34.

* See accompanying video of interview with George Obama on the News-Videos 2 page of this website.