Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang'i has slummed the Judiciary over failure to convict known drug traffickers.
In reference to the Akasha brothers, Matiang'i regretted that they were only sentenced after they were extradited to the United States.
“They never slept in a police cell. They were released 10 times via bonds by Judiciary. Until the Akashas were jailed in US, they might be roaming here and continuing to kill our youths,” said the CS on Monday as quoted by K24.
Baktash Akasha is a self-confessed international drug trafficker and was convicted for 25 years in federal prison by a US court in August 2019.
The Akasha brothers including, Ibrahim, were arrested in 2015 in Kenyan by law enforcers alongside Gulam Hussein and Vijaygiri Goswami, in a US-led sting operation.
The four suspected drug barons were extradited to the US by the US Drug Enforcement Agency.
By the time of their extradiction, the four were out on bail from charges filed in a Kenyan court by the counter-terrorism and anti-narcotics units.
Reports by the Standard indicates that materials adduced before the sentencing of two Akasha brothers - Baktash and Ibrahim - show that they had successfully managed to delay their own cases by first obtaining uncountable, reapeted adjournments and generally delaying their conviction.
In an indictment of the Kenyan Judiciary, the US attorney leading the case told the judges that top goverment officials who were tired of artificial delays in the corridors of justice decided “they should be expelled to USA."