How Akasha's sons and two other drug suspects were rounded up for extradition

Lawyer Cliff Ombeta (second left) consults the Akashas familly at the Mombasa Law Courts yesterday. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]

At about 4pm on Monday, six Kenyan special agents reportedly escorted four suspected drug dealers wanted in the United States to an aircraft waiting on the tarmac at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Since November 2014, the two sons of slain drugs lord Ibrahim Akasha – Ibrahim and Baktash – as well as Indian drug suspect Vijaygiri Goswami and Pakistani Gulam Hussein had fought extradition to America where they are wanted by a New York court that indicted them for allegedly trying to import banned drugs.