Suspected thieves attempted to break into the home of Barack Obama’s elderly step-grandmother in Kenya, the U.S. presidential candidate’s uncle said Thursday.

The Houston Chronicle reports that, “the suspects did not manage to enter the house where Sarah Obama lives in the western Kenya village of Kogelo, according to Obama, the candidate’s uncle.”

Barack Obama’s uncle said the thieves apparently used a ladder early Wednesday to get onto the roof after discovering all the doors had been locked. It was not known how many robbers were involved or if any were in police custody.

The Kogelo police would not return callas seeking comment on the incident.

The Illinois senator was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood raised by his mother, a white American from Kansas. He barely knew his late father, a Kenyan economist from Kogelo.

According to the Chronicle, “the candidate’s relatives have tried to keep a low profile and have been reluctant to comment on their security in Kogelo, more than 300 miles from the capital, Nairobi.”

Sen. Obama is wildly popular in Kenya, where minibuses were emblazoned with his picture and vendors sell T-shirts bearing his image at traffic lights.

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