{"id":14292,"date":"2014-05-06T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/obama-s-aunt-buried-family-denies-rift\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:12:50","slug":"obama-s-aunt-buried-family-denies-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/obama-s-aunt-buried-family-denies-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Aunt Buried, Family Denies Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Saidi Obama, a brother to the late Zeituni said the family was astonished by reports that the larger Obama family is in disarray and says that they are united.}}<\/p>\n

\u201cLately there have been reports saying that there is a rift in the larger Obama family. I can say now that there is no rift in the family because we are united and that was a very big lie that we are fighting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Faisal Mboya, the first born of Zeituni says their father abandoned them when they were young and had got no moral authority to block the burial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some basic questions that need to be answered because we are all grown up and unfortunately our father abandoned us when we were very young. Right now the person that made us who we are today is our late mother,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Zeituni is survived by three sons and a daughter. Her mother Mama Sarah Obama paid her last respects but did not accompany the body to the graveside in accordance with Islamic tradition.<\/p>\n

Zeituni died in a Boston rehabilitation centre after several years of sickness. She previously survived a legal battle against deportation from the US.<\/p>\n

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{{Saidi Obama, a brother to the late Zeituni said the family was astonished by reports that the larger Obama family is in disarray and says that they are united.}} \u201cLately there have been reports saying that there is a rift in the larger Obama family. I can say now that there is no rift in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000052043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000052043,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14292.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14292.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14292.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14292.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14292.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14292.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000052043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14292"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14292"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}