Obama's Uncle Now Charged as Illegal Immigrant

Defiant Uncle Says "I think I will call the White House".

A long lost uncle of Barack Obama has been found to be living illegally in the U.S. after he was arrested for drink-driving.

Onyango Obama, 67, narrowly avoided crashing into a police car while over the limit, according to prosecutors.

When offered a phone call to arrange for bail, he reportedly asked to contact his nephew’s residence, the White House.

The man Mr Obama called ‘Uncle Omar’ is believed to have been  living illegally in the U.S. for more than four decades.

The President wrote in his book Dreams From My Father, first published in 1995, that he was ‘the uncle who left for America 25 years ago and had never come back’.

The arrest solves the mystery over the fate of the missing relative, who is the son of the President’s grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama’s third wife, Sarah. Mr Obama’s father, Barack Snr, was born to Hussein’s second wife, Akumu, but the President calls Sarah ‘Granny’ as she brought up his father.

Barack Obama (back row, second from left) with his family Kenya in 1987. Pictured are (back row L-R) Said Hussein Obama (brother of Obama sr), Barack Obama Jr, Malik Obama (son of Kezia), unknown woman, Nyandega (son of Kezia), Otieno (son of Malik) (Seated L-R): Auma (daughter of Kezia), Kezia (first wife of Mr Obama Snr), Mama Sarah (step-mother to Obama Sr), Sylpha (sister of Kezia)

Onyango was reportedly arrested outside the Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Massachusetts, last Wednesday after nearly crashing his Mitsubishi into a patrol car.He is said to have insisted the police officer should have given way to him at the junction.

When asked if he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail when he was taken back to the police station, the defendant allegedly said: ‘I think I will call the White House.’

He was detained due to an outstanding arrest warrant, issued after he was ordered to be deported to Kenya. His sister, Zeituni, also faced a deportation order after she was found living illegally in a Boston housing estate just before Mr Obama’s election.

She eventually won the right to stay in the U.S. after claiming asylum. Her lawyer, Margaret Wong, has now been retained to defend Onyango, who is reportedly the joint owner of a convenience store in Boston. 

Nelson Ochieng, a cousin in the Kenyan city of Kisumu, said: ‘Before he went to America, we all knew him as Omar. But he dropped that bit, changing it to Onyango, because he said he preferred his African name.’

There was no comment from the White House yesterday.