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Lawyers clash over Akashas transfer

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

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

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