The wife to the late drug baron Ibrahim Akasha has pleaded with the government to have her two children tried in Kenya instead of the US after being extradited.
The two, Baktash Akasha and Ibrahim Akasha were flown out of the country to the US after being blacklisted by the US government and placed on the list of the most wanted drug peddlers.
Fatma Akasha on Monday said it was not right for the Kenyan government to allow Kenyans flown and tried in the US when there are courts in the country to do the same.
She said from the time her children were taken away she has not seen them and does not know whether they are still alive.
"I have gone to court several times as well as to the police to inquire the whereabouts of my children and no one has told me the truth. I want to know where my children are," she told reporters in Mombasa.
"Why should they be sentenced from America? They have never been to America and they do not know there."
Baktash and Ibrahim were airlifted to the US on January 31, 2017 after the US government asked the Kenyan government to surender the two to answer to charges of drug trafficking.
Senior operatives from the US Drug Enforcement Agency and Kenya’s anti-narcotics agency were also involved in the operation that led to their arrest and extradition.