A Federal High Court in Abuja has discharged a request for the extradition of Ogun-East Senator in the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu, to the United States of America to face illegal drugs related offence trial.
Buruji Kashamu
According to The Punch, former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, had filed the request on May 28, upon a United State government’s request asking the Nigerian government to submit Kashamu for extradition.
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Justice Gabriel Kolawole held that he lacked authority to entertain the suit while the judgment of the division of the court in Lagos nullified the proceedings on June 8, because the same judgment affirmed by another judge of the same Lagos division had not been set aside by an appellate court.
Justice Okon Abang of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on the above date nullified the extradition proceedings which he said were initiated in contravention of an earlier order of the court.
However, Kashamu’s counsel, Ajibola Oluyede, had on June 25, when the case came up for the first time urged the court to dismiss the extradition application in the light of the judgments delivered in Lagos.
It should, however, be noted that Lagos federal high court judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, on Tuesday, June 23, rejected the application filed by Kashamu through his lawyer, to imprison the chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Ahmed Giade.
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