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Why President Barack Obama never inherited father's estate

NAIROBI: President Barack Obama wrote a letter to the High Court in Nairobi denying any claims to his father's estate in a legal brawl that started three months after the death of Obama senior.

Obama wrote the letter in July 1997, six months after winning the Illinois Senate seat, disavowing any claims he might have on his father's estate, that was valued at about Sh410,500 at the time of his death.

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