Court Stops FG's Move to Extradite Sen Kashamu
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday restrained the Federal Government from taking steps to extradite to a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Buruji Kashamu to the United State on allegation of his complicity in illicit drug trade.
Justice Okon Abang, in a judgment, held that neither the Federal Governor nor any of its agents could validly initiate extradition proceedings against Kashamu in view of subsiting restraining orders and judgments in his favour, which have remain unchallenged.
Justice Abang particularly noted that the judgement given by the Federal High Court, Lagos on January 6, 2014 (in suit No:49/2010) and another judgment of July 1, 2016 given by the Federal High Court , Abuja (in suit No: 479/2015), which prohibited Kashamu’s extradition on account of the US drug allegation, are still subsisting.
The judgement was on a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/530/18 filed by Kashamu, with the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) as defendants.
Justice Abang, in his judgement, noted that Justice Kolawole’s judgment, in nullifying the earlier extradition proceedings, was based on two judgments of the Federal High Court in suits Nos: 49/2010 and 508/2015, declaring as unlawful all attempts to extradite Kashamu in view of the judgements by two British courts which held that he was not the person involved in the drug crime in the US.
