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AGF Senate, NDLEA agree on Kashamu’s extradition
Buruji Kashamu
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The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami,
and the authorities of the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency on Saturday agreed with the Senate to halt the
alleged abduction of the senator representing Ogun East
Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to the United States.
Kashamu had alleged penultimate week that the anti drug
agency was conniving with the authorities of the US
government to abduct him from Nigeria, through unlawful
means.
Kashamu’s lawyer, Ajibola Oluyede, had in a petition to the
Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions,
claimed that NDLEA operatives had perfected strategies to
forcefully take him to the US in order to answer drug related
charges.
He had urged both the NDLEA and the office of the Attorney-
General to drop the alleged plan and follow the rule of law in
prosecuting Kashamu.
It specifically directed the two government establishments
to stay any further action on Kashamu’s alleged drug
charges in America, pending thorough investigation of
issues raised in Kashamu’s petition against them.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the chairman, Senate
Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions,
Senator Samuel Anyanwu, said the parties had resolved to
halt further action on the matter pending the determination
of the suit on the matter at the court.
Anyanwu said, “The Senate, AGF, NDLEA have unanimously
agreed to stop further harassment, intimidation, abduction
and extradition of Kashamu until the conclusion of the
matter at the law court.
“We had also agreed that the rules of law and due process
must be followed in the case.”
