Sophie Njoka
The Indian government has requested Kenyan authorities to extradite its citizen Vijay Goswami back to the country to face drug trafficking charges.
Goswami —an international drug baron—is wanted in many countries including the US, South Africa and faces murder and drug trafficking charges in Zambia from where he fled in 1994 and ended up in Dubai, where he was arrested and charged for trafficking and manufacturing drugs.
He was arrested alongside sons of slain drug baron Ibrahim Akasha in Mombasa in 2014. His lawyer, Cliff Ombeta, presented to a Mombasa court a letter from India, indicating, Goswami is part of an Indian drug trafficking cartel believed to have ferried narcotics worth Sh2 billion recovered in New Delhi late last year.
Objecting to the extradition request, Ombeta said his client fears the US authorities “could kidnap him and take him back to India”.
Goswami is fighting another extradition case at the Mombasa law courts, where the State has sought to extradite him to the US to answer to charges of drug trafficking jointly with Akasha sons. The Indian’s entry in Kenya remains controversial.
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