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Secrets of Governor Hassan Joho, alleged drug links and why President Donald Trump can’t arrest him

Inset: Joho when he visited the US      Photo:Courtesy

The US government has zero tolerance for drug dealers. See what happened to the Akasha family recently? Two Akasha siblings were spirited to America from the Kenyan coast in a well-planned extradition deal that involved the Jubilee administration - which has often accused Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho of having links with drug trafficking.

But Joho is on a tour of the USA. How did he get a visa and why hasn’t Washington arrested him? In any case, didn’t the late Internal Security Minister Prof George Saitoti link him to an international drug trafficking cartel based on a dossier provided by then US ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger?

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