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Wednesday 1 July 2015

Court dismisses extradition case against Senator Buruji Kashamu

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed an application for the extradition of Senator Buruji Kashamu, to the United States of America to face illicit drugs related offence trial.
 
The immediate past Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, had filed the application on May 28, 2015 upon an alleged United State government’s request asking the Nigerian government to submit Kashamu for extradition.
Justice Gabriel Kolawole in his ruling held that he lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit in the face of the subsisting orders and judgments of the Federal High Court, Lagos in Suit Nos. FHC/L/CS/49/2010 and FHC/L/CS/508/2015 restraining the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) from entertaining any extradition request from the United States of America against Kashamu on the basis of the same allegations from Kashamu had been exonerated by two British court judgments.
 
Justice Kolawole noted that the various judgments and orders of the British and Nigerian courts had not been appealed or set aside by an appellate court.
 
Justice Okon Abang of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court had on June 8, 2015 nullified the extradition proceedings which he said were initiated on in contravention of an earlier order of the court.
 
Abang’s orders nullifying steps taken by the NDLEA and AGF were affirmed by Justice Ibrahim Buba in a ruling on June 23, 2015 who said subsisting orders and judgements of the court must be obeyed until set aside by a superior court.
 
Though Justice Kolawole expressed reservations on the Lagos judgments, which he described as “wide and perhaps wild,” he held that it was the exclusive duty of the Court of Appeal to determine whether they were valid or not.
 
Kashamu’s counsel, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede had on June 25, 2015, when the case came up for the first time, urged the court to strike out the extradition application in the light of the previous subsisting judgments.
 
However, Justice Kolawole, who cited several authorities to the effect that the court is enjoined to take judicial notice of developments related to a case, noted that he had sometime in 2013 ruled in another application seeking to register the two British court judgments that even without registering same, the judgments were enough shield for Kashamu against any fresh extradition proceedings.
The judge then dismissed the suit, describing same as an abuse of court process.
 
While the Kashamu’s legal team comprised of Dr. Alex Iziyon (SAN), Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN) and Prince Ajibola Oluyede, the AGF’s team was led by a Deputy Director in the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. M. I. Hassan.

35 comments:

Unknown said...

D story plenty e tire me to read

Unknown said...

Issokay!

Unknown said...

B4 nko, I don't expect less

Unknown said...

B4 nko, I don't expect less

Unknown said...

Of course we know it'll finally happen.. Next news plzzzz!.. After all these dramas. Wasted my time following the series..

Unknown said...

Noted

SANDRA said...

Bleahhhh

SANDRA said...

Bleahhhhh

Unknown said...

Okay


OKORO UPGRADED**

Unknown said...

Better.

Unknown said...

Ooooooooooh my...!

Ok
Waiting for d judgment

Davido's driver said...

This is worth celebrating

Unknown said...

As expected, the Judiciary is a messsssss!!

Unknown said...

Good for him. At least now he can sleep properly. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Good for him. At least now he can sleep properly. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Double wahala

Unknown said...

money matter

Unknown said...

hmmmmm


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The Judiciary is a total mess...

Unknown said...

They shud let dis man serve his tenure with peace.

Debbie Chelsea said...

K

Anonymous said...

Hallelujah! Those imbeciles have no case. They were shopping for judges that would give them the verdict that they wanted. Finally, justice has been done.

Anonymous said...

I think they should leave this Buruji Kashamu alone at this stage and face other important issues than extradition extradition extradition all days, what is NDLEA gaining from this?

Anonymous said...

This man must be an enigma of some sort. There must be something extra-ordinary about him. He has continued to defeat the NDLEA, the AGF and the US authorities. I think God is on his side. He should be left alone to concentrate on his life and business.

Farggie said...

The judiciary system is becoming funny

Anonymous said...

Nigerian court system is a big joke

Unknown said...

Finally

Anonymous said...

D court did d right tyn..guess u don't understand all dis. Dn't jst rely on social media talk.

Ceecee said...

Nigeria courts did the right thing in this case. The uk freed him from this case 2ce and this has not be set aside by a higher court but here we are trying harder than the Americans to extradite our national without concrete evidence. Can't believe how low we have fallen. Tomorrow all the American papers and news houses will start ridiculing Nigeria -their senators are drug barons(- a justifying treason to further humiliate us at their airports etc. They are already laughing at us how we re falling over one another to please them. Americans cannot do what we re doing to this man to an ordinary citizen in their country. Really how many nigerians are equal to one American? If ndlea.and the attorney general have more evidence than what they presented in uk bring it out and follow the due process. Buhari must start now to re-organizing our country from the scratch.

Ceecee said...

Nigeria courts did the right thing in this case. The uk freed him from this case 2ce and this has not be set aside by a higher court but here we are trying harder than the Americans to extradite our national without concrete evidence. Can't believe how low we have fallen. Tomorrow all the American papers and news houses will start ridiculing Nigeria -their senators are drug barons(- a justifying treason to further humiliate us at their airports etc. They are already laughing at us how we re falling over one another to please them. Americans cannot do what we re doing to this man to an ordinary citizen in their country. Really how many nigerians are equal to one American? If ndlea.and the attorney general have more evidence than what they presented in uk bring it out and follow the due process. Buhari must start now to re-organizing our country from the scratch.

Anonymous said...

Bastard....lost soul..confused with d #Change...he is a Citizen and one of us,party or no party..no Obama is taking anyone forcefully from Nigeria..this is legacy,celebrate it and stop forming with ur Elders here..yeye boi

KGBL147-escobar said...

buruji is a don he begged his boss OBJ,20 billion libel case withdrawn against obj now he has been freed,padi padi govt..

Mpress said...

Nigeria court did the right thing

Mpress said...

Nigeria court did the right thing

Anonymous said...

When money talks bullshit works,only in nigeria, let them try it here

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