In January 2020, Ibrahim Akasha, Kenya’s notorious drug lord and a member of the Akasha drug cartel, was sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York. Baktash Akasha was believed to be the leader of a drug cartel that engaged in extreme violence, murders spanning Kenya and East Africa. The sentencings culminated decades of investigations into the network and several attempts to arrest the two brothers and their co-conspirators. There are questions we must thus ask: Why were these cases not prosecuted and convictions secured in Kenya, despite the availability of evidence? They also feel that the US convictions of the Akashas, who lived fabulously wealthy lifestyles in Kenya, point to Kenya’s judicial failure.

Source: The Star March 01, 2020 02:03 UTC