Drug lords and cartels have often proved to be a headache to most governments across the world. Their influence has in most cases destabilized most nations.
Drug lords always have a lot of supporters and even some top government officials always offer them protection. Through that they infiltrate all sectors of the government making their presence become unshakeable.
Details have emerged about just how bad President Barack Obama’s-government was dedicated to nabbing Ibrahim Akasha and Baktash Akashawho were notorious for trafficking drugs into the US.
When he became US President, Obama had a desire to end all combat operations in the middle east, particularly Afghanistan but it proved to be a huge task for his administration.
The US was battling to end fighting in a country that had more than 500,000 acres of opium, which escalated the drug trade thereby fueling the Taliban outfits.
He was worried that the heroin trade was to blame for the US military’s failure in the middle eastern country, thus his government decided to hunt for the kingpins.
The Akashas, thanks to a corrupt system, managed to get drugs from Afghanistan to Europe and the US disguised as cement or horticulture produce.
The first American contact with the Akashas was in March 2014, when they sent two pseudo-traffickers who described themselves as representatives of a Colombian drug-trafficking organisation.
The meeting took place in a room with hidden surveillance cameras in Mombasa and Baktash was caught on tape promising to deliver “one hundred per cent” heroin.
On November 9, 2014, the brothers, together with an accomplice Vijay Giri Goswami, board a commercial flight to Mombasa, thinking that they were going to transact a Kshs5 billion drug deal.
They were arrested after landing in Mombasa in a swoop carried out by officers from the Anti-Narcotic Drugs Police Unit and US security agents. A career in drug dealing had come to an end.
Upon extradition to the US, they pleaded guilty to drug charges before a court of law on October 26, and are awaiting sentencing that will be delivered in February 2019.