World / Barack Obama Kenyan Robbers Raid Grandma Obama's Home They fail to remove solar panel on house in African village By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff Posted Sep 11, 2008 4:20 AM CDT Copied Sarah Obama, 86, grandmother of Barack Obama, sits in the courtyard of a school named after her grandson in her home town of Kogelo, western Kenya, earlier this year. (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale) A band of thieves broke into the Kenyan home of Barack Obama's 85-year-old step grandmother yesterday, Reuters reports. "These are just people who think that Obama has been sending me a lot of money," said Sarah Obama. Nothing was stolen from the home in tiny Kogelo village. The burglars tried in vain to remove a rooftop solar panel and found nothing worth taking after they broke into a small outbuilding, police said. (More Barack Obama stories.) Report an error