Hypeline World News Report

The Kenyan half-brother of President Barack Obama has been arrested for alleged marijuana possession.

George Obama was arrested in Nairobi with one joint of marijuana, according to police chief Joshua Omokulongolo:

“He is not a drug peddler. But it is illegal, it is a banned substance,” he said. Mr Obama has denied the allegations.

George Obama, who is in his 20s, is due in court on Monday.

“They took me from my home,” George Obama told reporters in Nairobi from his jail cell. ” I don’t know why they are charging me.”

The US president and George Obama share the same father, only meeting each other briefly.

George Obama  stated that he has only met his famous half-brother twice and in their second meeting:”It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.”

George Obama is studying to be a mechanic,while working with a local youth group in Huruma, an area in Nairobi where he lives with his extended family.

He is the youngest of his father’s seven children and was born six months after his father died in a car crash in 1982.

Many of the new president’s Kenyan relatives went to Washington for his inauguration in January, his half brother George Obama did not.

In his book ” Dreams From My Father “the president described his half brother “George, as a ” handsome, round headed boy with a wary gaze.