THE NEWS: The government of the republic of Kenya has extradited four suspected drug barons.
The US Attorney’s office posted the arrival of the suspects on their website.
Fresh off failing to make headway in exporting impunity to the AU, Jubilee government decided to introduce fresh lies to try link some non-aligned governors to drug trafficking. This Jubilee MP was among various jubilee social media activist that edited a statement from the above US government on arrival of two extradited suspects.
THE PR STUNT: Try to link Joho of ODM
The PR failed and the MP’s facebook followers were quick to remind him of the fact
an the struggle continues
However, Uhuru’s newspaper had a related headline that implies:
- government extradited the suspects
- government was looking to extradit more suspects
- the government is willing to defend itself and will use links to drugs (alleged or otherwise to do so)
Standard newspaper had a more rounded story
All this is related to the day Joho stopped uhuru from taking credit for a World bank funded project
Twitter had some questions for the government which has not implemented extradition orders issued against former Finance minister Chris Okemo and former Kenya Power and Lighting Company managing director Samuel Gichuru.
more background on Gichuru and Okemo here http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Okemo-Gichuru-lose-bid-to-stop-extradition-case/1056-3001782-1aswkez/index.html