Haji: How are we going to deal with the big shots related to drugs

A number of prominent Kenyans named in bribery charges against drug traffickers Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha will not be secretly taken out of the country and sent to the United States for trial, along with the brothers. and controversial sisters, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). said.

Mr. Noordin Haji told the Daily Nation In an exclusive interview Friday, Kenya intends to fully cooperate with US efforts to prosecute more than 10 politicians, judges, businessmen and a lawyer for helping drug trafficking infamous world of the Akashas.

But he will do this by following the extradition procedure and following the judicial procedure, he said.

Haji said his office is still waiting for a formal request from the US government for people Washington wants to try for various Akasha-related offenses.

The application will determine the action that the DPP office will undertake and whether the appointees will be judged in the US or locally as a result of an investigation.

The Akasha brothers were arrested by the Kenyan authorities on 28 January in Mombasa, along with Pakistani nationals Gulam Hussein and India's Vijaygiri Goswami, before being handed over to the DEA two days later.

On January 30, the DEA embarked the four individuals on a plane and airlifted them to the United States, where they were charged with drug trafficking.

Baktash and Ibrahim pleaded guilty last month to seven counts, including trafficking in heroin and methamphetamine, also known as methamphetamine.

At the time, the two brothers filed an appeal in the High Court of Mombasa to stop their extradition to the United States.

On the day of their extradition, Mombasa High Court Judge Njoki Mwangi issued an order prohibiting the police chief, Joseph Boinett, and the director of criminal investigations, Ndegwa Muhoro, from extraditing the barons of Drugs. She also ordered that the Akasha brothers be produced before her.

Mr. Haji submits that the Akashas were grouped in this manner because previous attempts to follow the extradition procedures had been in vain.