A Unites States attorney has explained the reason behind the prosecution of the Akasha brothers—Ibrahim and Baktash—in the US despite being Kenyans.
In a report tabled before justice Victor Morrerro on Saturday, Geoffrey Berman claimed that the brothers, who have since pleaded guilty to drug dealing, had all justice handlers in their pockets.
He said that the US prosecution decided to take them to the US, tired of the ping-pong games at the Kenyan judiciary which was openly not going to prosecute the case.
“The extradition hearing presented extremely grave danger to all of the US witnesses who were requested in these proceedings to show up in Africa on the basis of what we believe was, again, an extensively corrupted proceeding in Kenya,” he said.
This is as it emerges that the brothers had corrupted the entire system and were actually running the show in the courtroom long before the extradition process came to be.
Not only were they doing it to protect themselves from the law, but also to occupy the raw materials needed for manufacturing the drug, as was confessed by Ibrahim.
Speaking to a secret USA Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent named Rashid earlier, he bragged that he would manoeuvre his way to government labs in Nairobi to steal chemicals used to manufacture metaphematine which was then exported globally.
“It was hard, but men, I used to do it. Yeah, I used to bribe everybody. You pay everybody and at night I go, and I own a van. I load it full. One thousand kilos,” he confessed to the underground investigator.
The two have since pleaded guilty and are awaiting their sentencing.