Court dismisses FG’s suit to extradite Kashamu
Buruji Kashamu
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Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed an application for the
extradition of Ogun-East Senator in the National Assembly, 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 a 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 while the judgment of the division of the court in
Lagos nullifying the proceedings on June 8, 2015 and 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 June 8,
2015, had nullified the extradition proceedings which he said were
initiated on in contravention of an earlier order of the court.
Abang’s orders nullifying the proceedings were affirmed by Justice Ibrahim Buba in a ruling on June 23, 2015.
Though
Justice Kolawole expressed reservations on the Lagos judgments, which he
described as “wild and audacious,” he held that it was the exclusive
duty of the Court of Appeal to determine whether whether they were
rightly or wrongly given.
Kashamu’s
counsel, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede had on June 25, 2015, 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.
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