Kenya: Honeymoon Over for Okemo, Gichuru in Jersey Graft Case

A blunder by former Attorney-General Amos Wako and differences between his office and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions over who was to extradite billionaire Samuel Gichuru and former Cabinet minister Chris Okemo to the Island of Jersey to face money laundering charges almost let them free, the Nation has learnt.

And now Attorney-General Githu Muigai says he will restart the extradition process as ordered by the Court of Appeal, and that, he says, will be his last deed in office.

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