Are the Kenyan Prisons really up to the task of protecting innocent Kenyans from Rogue individuals?
Well, if you thought they really are, you will have to rethink and think straight.
The Kenyan Prisons seem to have become centers of trade where the highest bidder get’s released while the lowest bidder has to bear life behind bars.
Details have emerged of how an Iranian diplomat offered $150,000 (Sh15 million) to two Kenyan racketeers and Ghanaian to free convicted terrorists and sneak them to Tehran.
According to an affidavit filed by detectives in court, the two Iranians Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammed and Sayed Mansour Mousavi, the racketeers with the connivance of their contacts within Kamiti Maximum Prison were to execute a “smooth prison break” and ensure that they safely arrive in Tehran to enjoy their freedom.
But the Iranian ambassador to Kenya, Hadi Farajvand, absolved the embassy from any involvement in the plot to buy freedom for his countrymen and blamed some unnamed persons of trying to blackmail him.
Iranian ambassador to Kenya, Hadi Farajvand
Addressing the press at the embassy yesterday on the damning revelations, the envoy claimed some forces are unhappy with his government’s generous move to offer scholarships to some lecturers and students at Jomo Kenya University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) to study nanotechnology.
The saga of two Iranians, who have been in jail over explosives recovered in Mombasa seven years ago, has taken interesting legal twists and turns in the corridors of the Kenyan justice system. The matter that has been adjudicated at various stages and convictions handed is still pending in the Supreme Court for the final determination.