An agency of the government of Kenya is holding a paltry KSh 55,933, or just 559 US dollars, as inheritance for president Barack Obama from his father, Obama Senior.
Vincent Kimosop, chairman of the Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority was on Tuesday July 14 quoted by Business Daily stating that he holds the money from president Obama’s father.
It is not clear, however, to whom the money will go among Obama Senior family members.
He died in 1982 in a car crash and had deposited the money with the Kenya National Assurance Corporation before it was put under the custody of Kimosop.
Under the Luo customs, a father’s wealth is split among the sons.
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He had four wives among them was president Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, whom they met at a university in Hawaii.
Obama Senior later moved to Kenya where he became a government economist.
They were married for a five years before breaking up. His other wives include Jael Otieno, mother of the step brother, Malik, who recently sold an old handwritten letter that president Obama had written him to the US media.
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President Obama is expected in the country next week starting July 24 for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
It is still unclear as to whether he will visit his father’s home in K’ogelo, Nyanzaand for how long he will actually stay in the country.
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