Kashamu’s Lawyer Tells NDLEA, You ‘re Mad Dogs

 
Kashamu

There was disorderliness for few minutes at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday at the continued hearing of a committal suit filed by the Senator-elect for Ogun East Senatorial district, Buruji Kashamu against the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The disorder was as a result of outburst of Kashamu’s lawyer, Ajibola Oluyede, who labeled the officials of NDLEA as behaving like mad dogs for putting his client under house arrest for six days despite a court order to the contrary.
When the matter was called before Justice Ibrahim Buba, NDLEA’s Director of Prosecution and Legal Services, James Sunday, had drew the court’s attention to an application which he filed seeking to set aside an interim order restraining the agency from extraditing Kashamu.
He had equally moved to justified NDLEA’s action in laying siege to Kashamu’s residence, and further argued that the agency had not been properly served with the processes in the suit.

Sunday said he was in court to have a better understanding of the suit and the processes filed so far.
But Oluyede, in response, flayed the NDLEA lawyer, saying he was attempting to mislead the court.
He said the NDLEA acted like mad dogs in laying siege to Kashamu’s residence.
But Sunday swiftly jumped up and took serious exception to Oluyede’s comment.
The development caused rowdy session in court for few minutes, until Justice Buba called Oluyede to order.
“You are an officer in the temple of justice and you should mind your words. There should be decorum in the court,” the judge stressed.
Oluyede, however, apologized saying he was carried away because the action of the NDLEA was indeed very painful.
“My Lord, despite the interim orders that were made on May 26 by your Lordship, the NDLEA officials failed to vacate the residence of my client.
’The only reason they left was because I signed an undertaken on May 28.  My client was in a toilet for six days with 20 masked armed men in his bedroom. So, I signed the undertaking before they left. They should not claim to have obeyed the order of the court.
“It is Kashamu today, it might be any other person tomorrow. The NDLEA is going about this matter as if we are slaves to the United States. Can America treat England like that,” Oluyede queried.
In his ruling, Justice Buba restated his earlier restraining order, and warned parties against doing anything to undermine the case in court.
Apparently referring to an arrest warrant procured by the NDLEA before another judge of the Federal High Court (Justice Saliu Saidu), Justice Buba warned parties against bringing about confusion and conflicting rulings of the court by their conduct.
“It is time for government agencies to go by the rule of law. Any attempt to do otherwise will be a recipe for anarchy. They must obey subsisting orders of court and they should not take laws into their hands,” Justice Buba held.
The matter was subsequently adjourned to June 19 for hearing of all pending applications.
Kashamu, who is a chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), is wanted in the United States of America for drug related crime.
Kashamu was alleged to have been involved in big time drug crime in and out of the United States.