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EXTRADITION: Kashamu runs to Supreme Court for help
A ruling of the Court of Appeal recently held that Senator Buruji Kashamu can be arrested if there is need to do so, reversing an earlier order of a lower court restraining the law enforcement agencies in the country from arresting the lawmaker.
Apparently afraid of the implication of the ruling in respect to the Federal Government efforts to have him extradited to the United States (U.S.) to face an alleged drug related offence, Senator Kashamu has run to the Supreme Court to challenge the ruling of the appellant court on his arrest.
Following the efforts made by the Federal Government to extradite him to U.S., the lawmaker had in 2015 secured a judgment of the Federal High Court in Lagos restraining the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and others from arresting and forcefully “transporting” him to the U.S.
Sequel to the recent Appeal Court ruling on the matter, Kashamu, who represents Ogun East at the Senate, has through his lawyer sought the intervention of the Supreme Court in the matter.
Kashamu, in his notice of appeal, insisted that his affidavit before the appellant court was full of facts showing the conclusion of a plot by the AGF and others to abduct and transport him to the US to face trial over alleged offences in respect of which he had been exonerated.
He argued that the Court of Appeal erred for holding that he ought to have waited for the alleged plot to be hatched before approaching the court to seek redress.
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“There was uncontroverted evidence before the lower court that in 2000, during the Presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo, an illegal abduction was carried out against a Nigerian citizen with the assistance of government officials and with the consent of the said President Olusegun Obasanjo.
“The lower court was wrong in failing to see that all the information that was available to the appellant was enough to justify an apprehension of likelihood of breach of his fundamental right to liberty through his abduction by the respondents and transportation to the USA,” counsel to Kashamu noted.
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