Revealed: The long hunt for ivory, drug trafficking suspect

Mansur Mohamed at Millimani Law Court. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji waded into uncharted waters when he executed a decision to legally hand over a Kenyan citizen to the US to face charges of wildlife trafficking.

On August 13 last year, a sealed brown envelope marked ‘URGENT’ landed on Haji’s desk. In it was a confidential document from Attorney General Kihara Kariuki’s office, requesting that he should move to court to seek orders to extradite Mansur Mohamed Surur.