FORMER OLYMPIC CHAMPION MO FARAH REVEALS HIS REAL IDENTITY

By Bibhu Ray

(The Quiver) : Olympic great Mo Farah was illegally trafficked to Britain at the age of nine from Djibouti and forced to work as a child servant, he has revealed, saying his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin. The distance runner was flown to the UK from the east Africa country aged eight or nine by a women he had never met, given the name Mohammed Farah, and made me look after another family’s children.
“The real story is I was born in Somaliland, north of Somalia, as Hussein Abdi Kahin.” He told BBC. “Despite what I’ve said in the past, my parents never lived in the U.K.

Farah who completed the 5,000m-10,000m double at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics, had previously said he came to the UK as a refugee from Somalia with his parents.
When I was four my dad was killed in the civil war, you know as the family we were torn apart. I was separated from my mother, and I was brought into the U.K. illegally under the name of another child called Mohammad Farah.
The women who flew with him to the UK told him he was being taken to live with relatives and to say his name was Mohammad as she had fake travel documents that showed his photo next to the name.”Mohammad Farah”
Farah says he was forced to do housework and childcare “if I wanted food in my mouth,” and was told: “If you ever want to see your family again, don’t say anything.”

When he arrived in the UK, Farah says the women who accompanied him took a piece of paper from him that his relative’s contact details and “ripped it up and put in the bin.
“Often I would just lock myself in the bathroom and cry,” he says.

The only language he seemed to understand was the language of PE and sport,” says Farah physical education teacher Alan Watkinson.
Farah eventually told the truth to teacher Watkinson, local authorities and moved to live with his friend mom who took care of him and he ended up staying for seven years.
It was Watkinson who applied for Farah’s British citizenship which he described as a “long process.” Farah was recognized as British Citizen in July 25th 2000.”

“We applaud @Mo_Farah for his bravery in telling his heartbreaking story,” tweeted Britain’s Refugee Council charity.