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Judges who aided Akashas’ drug trafficking should be punished

Ibrahim Akasha at the Mombasa Court on November 13, 2014. [Kelvin Karani]

The name Akasha is synonymous with drug trafficking in Kenya. The Akasha family patriarch, Ibrahim Abdalla Akasha, was killed in Amsterdam in 2000 in a drug deal gone sour. Earlier, he had escaped a Kenya police dragnet on drug-related charges.

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