COURT ORDERS NDLEA OPERATIVES TO VACATE KASHAMU’S HOUSE …Judgment is diversionary, laughable- NDLEA
A Federal High Court in Lagos has reportedly ordered the more than 50
operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to
immediately vacate the Lagos residence of the senator-elect for Ogun
East Senatorial District, Mr. Buruji Kashamu.
According to Punch Newspaper, the NDLEA, whose operatives had laid
siege on Kashamu's residence in Lagos since Saturday, said it had
received a formal extradition request on Kashamu from the government
of the United States of America and was coming to court to secure an
extradition order. But Justice Ibrahim Buba, in a bench ruling on
Tuesday afternoon, pronounced the action of the NDLEA as sub judice
and ordered the men of the Nigerian police to ensure that NDLEA
operatives vacate Kashamu's premises "without a free for all."
However, when E24-7 MAGAZINE spoke with NDLEA's spokesman, Mitchell
Ofoyeju on Monday, May 25th, concerning earlier reports that the
Federal High Court had ordered the unconditional release of Kashamu,
he described the ruling as laughable and diversionary. In his words,
"It is laughable, diversionary. What I can tell you is that we have
got the judgment to go ahead with the extradition process against
Buruji Kashamu. Whatever judgment they have, it's diversionary, and we
refuse to be diverted. We have an official extradition request on
Kashamu from the United States. He stands indicted until he proves
otherwise. Our men are still in his house; they are in charge. We hope
that by tomorrow (Tuesday), he will willingly appear in the court by
himself. We are very hopeful." It should be recalled that men of the
NDLEA had laid a siege to Kashamu's house over the weekend following a
request for his extradition made by the United States government for
charges bordering on the trafficking of narcotics into the country in
the 1990s.
operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to
immediately vacate the Lagos residence of the senator-elect for Ogun
East Senatorial District, Mr. Buruji Kashamu.
According to Punch Newspaper, the NDLEA, whose operatives had laid
siege on Kashamu's residence in Lagos since Saturday, said it had
received a formal extradition request on Kashamu from the government
of the United States of America and was coming to court to secure an
extradition order. But Justice Ibrahim Buba, in a bench ruling on
Tuesday afternoon, pronounced the action of the NDLEA as sub judice
and ordered the men of the Nigerian police to ensure that NDLEA
operatives vacate Kashamu's premises "without a free for all."
However, when E24-7 MAGAZINE spoke with NDLEA's spokesman, Mitchell
Ofoyeju on Monday, May 25th, concerning earlier reports that the
Federal High Court had ordered the unconditional release of Kashamu,
he described the ruling as laughable and diversionary. In his words,
"It is laughable, diversionary. What I can tell you is that we have
got the judgment to go ahead with the extradition process against
Buruji Kashamu. Whatever judgment they have, it's diversionary, and we
refuse to be diverted. We have an official extradition request on
Kashamu from the United States. He stands indicted until he proves
otherwise. Our men are still in his house; they are in charge. We hope
that by tomorrow (Tuesday), he will willingly appear in the court by
himself. We are very hopeful." It should be recalled that men of the
NDLEA had laid a siege to Kashamu's house over the weekend following a
request for his extradition made by the United States government for
charges bordering on the trafficking of narcotics into the country in
the 1990s.
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