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Photos: Vehicle that killed US President Barack Obama's father

By GARDY CHACHA | Jul. 24, 2015

Kisumu, Kenya: Barack Hussein Obama, Sr was a Kenyan Harvard educated economist and the father of US President Barack Obama. In his adult life he had car accidents of which the last one claimed his life in 1982.

A photo of the car that killed Obama Sr still bearing its original number plate
Joseph Owili Ongei bought the car that killed Obama Sr., the father of Barack Obama, the president of the United States
Owili with his son standing next to the car in rural Nyanza
The log book that Owili was issued with showed the original owner of the car he bought in 2000 as Dr Barack H. Obama

 

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