A Peoples Democratic Party chief in Ogun State and Ogun East Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of working with local and foreign security agencies to extradite him to the United States of America through illegal means.
Buruji said Obasanjo was involved in the alleged plot to extradite him to the United States over drug related indictment in the foreign land because of the defeat the former President had suffered in the PDP.
The senator-elect, through his lawyer, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, said this in a petition to the National Human Rights Commission, seeking investigation into an alleged plan to abduct him and forcibly extradite him to the US.
The petition, dated April 15, 2015 and addressed to the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof. Bem Angwe, is entitled, ‘Prince Buruji Kashamu: Abduction plans by United States of America agents in collaboration with law enforcement agencies in Nigeria’.
“The current plan to abduct him (Kashamu) is an admission by the US authorities that there is no case against him and is a design instigated and commissioned by Obasanjo who seeks revenge against him for the comprehensive political defeat Obasanjo suffered because of Kashamu in the PDP,” Oluyede wrote.
Oluyede urged the NHRC to urgently intervene “in accordance with the jurisdiction expressly given to your commission by the National Human Rights Act 1995 as amended to carry out an inquiry into the matter in order to establish the culpability and compromise of certain institutions in this despicable plan and to protect our client’s fundamental human right to liberty, life and dignity of hisperson.”
Kashamu explained that despite previous court decisions both in Nigeria and the United Kingdom exonerating him of alleged offences, “desperate politicians” were still mounting pressure on the Attorney General of the Federation to resuscitate the US indictment against him in Nigeria to extradite him to the US.
Oluyede however, said the pressure on the AGF did not work because as the US authorities had never made a request for Kashamu to be extradited to the US as required by the Extradition Treaty the US and Nigeria as well as the Nigerian Extradition law.
The petition reads, “Kashamu’s enquiry revealed that indeed there had been moves by US officials within the region to secure the assistance of the head of the INTERPOL division in Nigeria, Mr. Solomon Arase, a Deputy Inspector General of Police, for the arrest and delivery to the US officials of Kashamu for transportation to the US without following the due process required by the Nigeria Extradition Act.
“Mr. Kashamu’s informant revealed that Arase has confirmed that one Donna Chabot approached him in January 2015. The said Ms Chabot is an Attache Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the American Embassy route Des Almedies BP 49 Dakar Senegal and requested that INTERPOL Nigeria assist in the abduction of Kashamu for the purpose of his forcible transportation to the US to face trial before Judge Norgel.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Since he has refused to travel as a passenger he can go as a cargo.
ReplyDeleteTrue talk. What is difficult about going to clear your name over this drug issue. Please Buruji, now that they are trying to abduct you and transport you to the US, why don't you on your own go and clear your name. We know you are innocent, but just go and clear your name once and for all.
DeleteDenegerate your citizens and want respect out of the blues for the same citizens. Nigeria I hail o!
ReplyDeleteDenegerate your citizens and want respect out of the blues for the same citizens. Nigeria I hail o!
ReplyDeleteUS is not Nigeria if you are actually clean as you claim to be, why worrying if you are extradited. If you are tried and found not culpable. You will come back home with huge compensation. Your crying out means you are hiding things.THE GUILTY ARE AFRAID.
ReplyDeleteDid d question is, were u ever involved in d criminal Act? Go face the charge nd stop complaining via ur liaryers. D person that didn't chop gbi cannot die gbi(yoruba proverb)
ReplyDeleteLol at chop gbi. The guy is obviously scared. If he is not guilty he should not be afraid to face the law. Afteral Ibori was cleared in Nigeria but jailed in the UK. Kashamu aka Esho Jinadu should face the drug charges.
DeleteNot settling score but getting justice
ReplyDeleteKashamu, I thought last week you said you where not involved in any crime why all these statement... go jor and clear yourself #bringbackourgirls
ReplyDeleteThe man is scared stiff because he knows he is a criminal. If you are sure you are innocent, don't wait to be extradited - Go on your own and offer yourself for trial. That you are scared of extradition suggests you know you are a criminal. Enough of this politicising of crime.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder GEJ failed. Imagine the kind of people he worked with. GEJ will be remembered as the President that ran the most corrupt government. Yes, that is what history will use to remember him. O.J
ReplyDeleteAll of u lack wisdom.some of u r theives and robers .who kill u?if d guy actually comit any ofence d US knows how to go about it why cuting protocol to get him arested?Obj is too old for all these shamles act of fight you Nigerians who r suposed to be his children
ReplyDeletehe should keep quite