Obama’s 91-year-old grandmother, Sarah Obama, is reportedly recovering at her residence after suffering from bruises and shock resulting from a car accident in Western Kenya.
Sarah Obama was reportedly moving to her neighborhood Kogelo on Saturday night when her car rolled over. Police officials are yet to establish the cause of the accident; however they told reporters that the driver lost control over the car and it landed into a channel.
Five people were travelling in the car at the time of the accident, including Obama’s grandmother, and none of them suffered any serious injuries. However, the car was completely smashed. An ambulance was driven straight away to the accident site and all 5 passengers, including 2 bodyguards, were carried to the Agha Khan hospital in Kisumu.
"God is with me, because if you could have seen the wreckage that we came out of safe, one would wonder," Sarah Obama said Monday.
According to a hospital representative of the Aga Khan hospital, Sarah Obama was injured and distressed when she reached the hospital. She was discharged from the hospital 2 hours afterwards. Doctors told reporters that it was safe for Sarah to go home and take rest.
"You can see I was not injured save for this small scar on my right hand and I am not even using a walking stick," Obama said.
Besides, President Obama’s grandmother said even distant friends and relative have been calling to check on her condition.
According to ABC News, “Sarah Obama is the step-mother of President Obama's Kenyan father. She has been to the U.S. a few times, and the president has been to the village to visit with her and other relatives three times. In his memoir, "Dream From My Father," Obama called her ‘Granny.’”
In 2008 Sarah said in an interview that she and Barack Obama are quite close, even though they have to converse via an interpreter.
It is pertinent to mention here that Kenyans pay very high regard to President Obama, the son of a Kenyan. People in Kenya have even been naming their children ‘Obama’ after Barack Obama became the U.S president. Restaurants, stores and even buses have been branded as ‘Obama.’
