Obama's Abusive Father Revealed by Sibling

November 4, 11:13 AMLaw Enforcement ExaminerJim Kouri

In spite of holding an office that's arguably the most powerful in the world, President Barack Obama continues to be a relative man of mystery. Surprisingly, few if any, Americans seem to care about President Obama's childhood and family background, and those who are interested utilize his acclaimed -- though self-serving -- autobiography.

Little is known about the President's father, mother and siblings, and no one in the so-called mainstream news media appears curious. What influence did Obama's father have on the ambitious young scholar who climbed into the Oval Office from relative obscurity? Did this man, who gave President Obama his name, favor him above his other children? Those questions are just for starters.

President Obama saw his father only once after his parents divorced, when he was 10 years old. In a best-selling memoir, ''Dreams from My Father,'' Obama wrote about his fatherless upbringing and search for identity. Obama, Sr. died in an automobile accident in 1982 at age 46.

And even less is known about Obama's numerous half-brothers and half-sisters -- until now.

Mark Obama Ndesandjo has written a novel based on his own life and he's revealed information absent from his half-brother's memoir. According to Mark, Barack Obama, Sr. was an abusive husband and parent.

During his current book promotion tour, Mark Ndesandjo told an AP reporter that he wrote his auto-biographical-novel ''Nairobi to Shenzhen'' in part to raise awareness of domestic violence.

''My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that,'' said Ndesandjo, whose mother, Ruth Nidesand, was Barack Obama Sr.'s third wife. ''It's something which I think affected me for a long time, and it's something that I've just recently come to terms with.''

Ndesandjo's mother was a Jewish-American woman who divorced the abusive Barack, Sr.  The President's own mother separated from the Barack, Sr. two years after Junior was allegedly born in Hawaii in 1961.

The senior Obama, a Kenyan, was a student in the US and, in 1964, he reportedly divorced the President's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. He returned to Kenya where he fathered six additional children. 

The relationship -- or lack of a relationship -- between Barack Senior and Junior begs this question: While President Obama is half-white and half-black, why does he identify more with an abusive and absent black father and less with his white mother?

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Earlier this year, another Obama sibling created a stir of a different kind:  The British newspaper The Sun reported that Samson Obama, a Kenyan national, tried to enter Britain while he was on his way to Washington, DC for his brother's Presidential Inauguration on January 20.

However, according to The Sun reporter Gloria Di Piero, immigration agents at East Midlands Airport, using the latest biometric tests, discovered he was linked to an incident in the United Kingdom that occurred in November, 2008.

Information on the database revealed that Samson -- who manages a mobile phone shop just outside Nairobi, Kenya -- was in fact the man who was arrested by police officers in Berkshire after he allegedly approached a group of young girls, including a 13 year-old, and allegedly tried to sexually assault one of them.

According to The Sun report, the children took refuge inside a cafe, but Obama followed them and became aggressive towards them at which point the cafe owner asked Obama to leave and called the police. When police officers arrived, Samson Obama was still in the vicinity and, after questioning him, he was placed under arrest by the officers.

During his processing, Obama gave officers a false ID -- claiming to be Henry Aloo, a genuine refugee and asylum seeker -- and supplied his mother Mum Kezia's address in Bracknell, Kenya, according to Di Piero. 

Mum Kezia, 67, who has lived in Bracknell for six years, had married President Obama's father Barack Obama, Sr. in Kenya while still a teenager.

After Samson's arrest he was fingerprinted but not formally charged and then he was allowed to leave the United Kingdom. But his "pedigree" and the details of the arrest were stored on the Home Office's new database of prints and biometric details.

Samson Obama was apprehended as he attempted to slip back into Britain to visit relatives en route to his half-brother's inauguration.

The Sun also reports that the White House was informed and a Home Office source is quoted as saying, “This was obviously an extremely sensitive issue when it was flashed up by the database."

"But the system is designed to flag up people who have come to the attention of the police in the UK and are then trying to return," he said to The Sun reporter. "This was a good example of how people who may be undesirable can be refused another visa."

 On April 10, a Home Office spokesman confirmed that Samson Obama was refused a visa after immigration officers noticed one of the documents he supplied with his visa application was false. That led them to make further inquiries.

 A UK Border Agency spokesman told The Sun: "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."

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org).  In addition, he's the former editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. 

He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations.  He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.   Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com.  He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com.   He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. 

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