UK detectives in Kenya to trace loot, fight corruption

British High Commissioner to Kenya Nic Hailey (left) with Foreign Affairs PS Macharia Kamau in a toast to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 93rd birthday in Nairobi on Thursday. [David Njaaga]

The United Kingdom has sent special investigators into the country to help Kenyan authorities tighten the noose on past and present politicians who have stashed billions of shillings in the UK and its jurisdictions. 

Barely a day after it emerged that the offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), as well as the Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI), had solicited the help of the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), UK officials said they had dispatched a team of investigators to help Kenya in the war against corruption.