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Storm over secret transfer of Akasha son

Mombasa, Kenya: The Government has admitted that police secretly removed the son of slain drug baron Ibrahim Akasha from Mombasa's Port Police Station on November 12 and flew him to Nairobi for interrogation without a court order.

The admission sparked a storm of protest from defence lawyers who claimed Kenyan authorities may be planning to extradite him and other suspects to the US illegally.

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