Senator
Kashumu seems ready for a fight ahead of a possibly extradition to the
United States of America to face drug trafficking charges.
Buruji Kashamu
The latest ruling of a United States court which ruled that Senator
Buruji Kashamu must face drug charges has prompted the National Drug
Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) to push for the arrest of the federal
lawmaker, saying it has been “emboldened and strengthened” by the
ruling.
Meanwhile Kashamu, on Saturday, said that he believes that the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government would not oblige the
request by the US Government for his extradition.
Kashamu, who described as illegal the move by the US to extradite him to face alleged drug charges, said: “There
is no extradition that can be brought against me again. The only thing
they can do is to watch and catch me on the road; take me to the airport
or Cotonou or throw me inside a vessel and take me through the Atlantic
Ocean. But I am not going to let that happen.
“I don’t go to the beach, and now, I will go and hire OPC, may
be like 40. I will load them (in my vehicle), because the day we meet,
one has to kill one. That is for sure! One has to kill one because I am
not ready to go anywhere. Before that happens, maybe about three, four
or five people will die.
But I do not believe that this government can entertain this
kind of rubbish. I do believe that this government has integrity and
they (officials) are credible; they believe in the rule of law, because
if they want to do it, they could have done it. Obasanjo has been
pushing them, using one Sandra, a former ambassador of the United
States; he’s the one pushing everybody, meeting all these judges, but
what have I done?”
In a related development, Kashamu in a statement titled, 'US court
ruling: I have no case to answer’, dated January 28, 2017, said that he
was not the offender wanted in the US, but his younger brother, Adewale
Kashamu, who is now late.
He stated, “My brother was living in Chicago, I sent him to
school. He’s very well educated. He was the one having girlfriends
there; he was the one who caused a lot of problems. Even when I was in
London, they still traced almost $2m into his bank account while I was
in prison; they still continued doing the transaction. If you go through
the last British judgment, it is there. The Interpol people were the
ones who went to the bank and got all the information, and carried all
the documents, they came to London and gave evidence in court.
“The Beninoise Interpol produced evidence showing that the
Benin telephone number, through which the US offenders communicated with
their West African collaborators, belonged to my brother, Adewale
Kashamu, and not me, Buruji Kashamu. When they were looking for him, the
NDLEA people went to his house here; they searched his house.
"They went to his car company, they sealed his car company and
they took over 30 vehicles from there. He ran away.He was using the
office of Remi Adiukwu Oluwalogbon on Allen Avenue. For three good
years, he did not pay Remi Adiukwu. The NDLEA people sealed the car
company and they confirmed this in one of their letters.”
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