Drug trafficking and top political figures facilitating various drug operations in the country has always taken low tones. The alleged top politicians in bed with the drug lords tend to pose as unshakeable and even untouchable as they always have massive connections every where to survive any attempt to capsize them.
A number of prominent Kenyans named in bribery claims by drug traffickers Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha will not be secretly bundled out of the country and sent to the United States to stand trial as was done with the controversial siblings, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has said.
The DPP has vowed to corporate with US in efforts to bring into book more than 10 top political figures, Judges and even lawyers linked to facilitating the drug trafficking activities of the Akasha brothers.
Mr Haji added that his office is still awaiting an official request from the United States government regarding individuals that Washington, DC wants to try for various offenses related to the Akashas.
The request will determine what action the DPP’s office will take, and whether the named individuals will be tried in the US or locally following investigations.
The Akasha brothers were arrested by Kenyan authorities on January 28 last year in Mombasa alongside Pakistani national Gulam Hussein and Indian national Vijaygiri Goswami, before being handed over to the United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) two days later.
On January 30, the DEA bundled the four individuals into a plane and flew them to the United States, where they were slapped with drug trafficking charges.
Baktash and Ibrahim last month pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges, including trafficking in heroin and methamphetamine, popularly known as meth.
The DPP added that even if the US seeks extradition for those named in the Akasha case and the suspects petition the courts to stop the process, his office will stick to the judicial process.
Baktash and Ibrahim also confessed to bribing police and judges — key players in the criminal justice system — to stall their planned extradition to the US.
Hamsi Salim Massa, head of the anti-narcotics unit in the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, told a US court in August that the Kenyan government independently ordered the “expulsion” of the Akasha brothers last year.
A Cabinet secretary, a governor, a top lawyer, a prosecutor, a senior detective, two judges and two magistrates are among scores of prominent Kenyans that the US Department of Justice is investigating over allegations of taking bribes from the Akashas.
Their have been uproars about Najib Balala being in the list but the information is yet to be verified by the US which is leading the investigation team.
Do you think DPP will have the powers to parade the top facilitators of drug barons the Akasha brothers?