A Kenyan half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he was briefly arrested at his home in a slum on suspicion of drugs' possession.
"I think it was a misunderstanding. I do not do drugs," George Hussein Obama, 27, told Reuters from Nairobi's Huruma slum, where he was picked up for a few hours on Saturday.
"They released me with no charge."
Local media quoted police saying Obama, who works as a mechanic, had been found with two rolls of marijuana.
Kenya's leading newspaper, the Nation, said he would be charged in court on Monday.
But Obama said that was untrue, and police officials refused to comment.
"I don't know what you are talking about," area police chief Jasper Ombati told Reuters, before hanging up the phone.
George Obama hardly knows his brother, the first black president of the United States, who is hero-worshipped in Kenya due to his ancestral roots.
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