US President Barack Obama’s half brother was refused a visa to enter the UK because he had been accused of a serious crime on a previous visit, it has emerged.
Samson Obama was on his way to Washington for the President’s inauguration in January but was stopped by immigration officials at East Midlands Airport.
Biometric tests discovered the Kenyan mobile phone shop manager was linked to a serious incident in the UK last November, the News of the World reported.
The newspaper said Samson was arrested by police in Berkshire after an alleged sex attack on a British girl but he was never charged.
Now the brother of U.S. President Barack Obama has been barred from Britain after lying to police when accused of a sexual assault.
Samson Obama – known as Abo – gave a false name to officers interviewing him after he was alleged to have tried to sexually assault a teenage girl in this country last November.
It was claimed that he approached a group of teenage girls, tried to sexually assault one of them, and then followed them into a nearby cafe. He was said to have become aggressive and was asked to leave by the owner.
The police were called and Samson was arrested.
He denied the assault and police did not prosecute him, but he accepted a police caution for a public order offence. At the time of his arrest Abo was living illegally at his mother Kezia’s house in Bracknell, Berks, but after the incident returned to his native Kenya.
A Home Office spokesman confirmed Samson Obama was refused a visa after immigration officers noticed one of the documents he supplied with his visa application was false which led them to make further inquiries.
A UK Border Agency spokesman said: “We consider all visa applications based on their merits.
“We will oppose the entry of individuals to the UK where we believe their presence is not conducive to the public good. The UK’s border controls are among the toughest in the world. All visa applicants are fingerprinted and checked against watch lists.
“Using this hi-tech system we have detected more than 5,600 attempts to use false identities since December 2007. Our officers in 135 countries around the world are working with law enforcement agencies and airlines to clamp down on forged passports and visas, creating an offshore ring of steel to protect the UK.”
Samson is one of President Obama’s half brothers and sisters by his father. Samson’s mother Kezia, 67, has lived in Bracknell for six years.
The News of the World said that Samson took a connecting flight to Washington after being refused entry at East Midlands.
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April 14, 2009 at 6:16 pm |
I know Abo Obama, he was working as Henry Aloo for Christian Salvesen in Bracknell and also for BMW, he was also working for Wise as a binman under that name. He also used to sell us marijuana, his mother knew he was illegal in the country for many years and has never been based in Nairobi. His brother also used to work with the same name at Mars in Slough (you can check all this out), his mother also lives with her sister who is also illegal in the country in her BullBrook Bungalow, she had been deported and made her way back. Ian Manners who lives in Warfield knows all this things and has been covering them and also doing interviews for money with the Obama name. They are not close to Barack at all and are just using that name for money. Infact Abo was born out of wedlock he is not really an Obama by blood.