US officials won’t testify in case involving Kenyans

Baktash Akasha (left) and his brother Ibrahim Akasha (right) when they appeared in a Mombasa court for their extradition case. (Photo: Gideon Maundu/Standard)

The US government has declined to honour a court order by a Mombasa magistrate in an extradition case involving the Akasha brothers.

The magistrate had summoned Southern New York Director of Prosecution Micheal Lockard and investigative officer Micheal Kellow to testify regarding a statement they had recorded in an affidavit touching on the extradition of suspects Ibrahim Akasha, Baktash Akasha, Indian Vijaygiri Goswami and Pakistani national Gulam Hussein to the US.