To those that don't know who Pablo Escosbar was, he was a Colombian drug lord from the 80s and 90s that became almost bigger than the Colombian government, till he was killed in 1993. And who is Kashamu Baruji? He is a newly elected Ogun State Senator who the NDLEA have been trying to Extradite to the U.S for some days now, to answer a drug related case. Well, that is the little people know about this man. But he goes by another name...or maybe more one. Back in the early 90s, he headed a drug cartel that dealt in millions of dollars of cocaine, and went by the alias, Alhaji, or Prince.


He has been on the run for more than 15 years now, and his unanswered drug case got blown up again when the TV Series, Orange is the New Black became popular a few years ago. I know you are wondering the correlation between the TV Series and Kashamu. Well, the series is actually based on the memoirs of Piper Kerman; an American woman who worked for Kashamu in the 90s. She wrote the book after saving 15 months for transporting monies for Kashamu. Although she never had a one on one meeting with Kashamu, her girlfriend at the time, worked directly with Kashamu and brought her into the cartel.


He was responsible for reinstating Obasonjo's power in Ogun state, when Gbenga Daniels (former Governor of Ogun state) was controling the state. And Kashamu boldly said he spent 3 Billion Naira to achieve this. He now wonders why Obasonjo is doing all he can to bring him down.

Read more below...


"With a mix of comedy and drama, and packed with tales of lesbian sex and inmates abused by guards, the edgy, fictionalized version of Kerman's life in prison has become one of the hottest shows in Hollywood this year. But in the real story behind the experiences of the fictional "Piper Chapman," the central character is the accused drug kingpin, a Nigerian businessman and political boss who has avoided U.S. authorities for 15 years.

Buruji Kashamu, who is frequently given the royal title "Prince" in African news reports, claims he was targeted in a case of mistaken identity. Rather than being the international drug smuggler known as "Alaji," he says he was actually a U.S. government informant who provided information about terrorist attacks on the U.S. before and after 9/11.

The U.S. attorney's office in Chicago won't say much about the case because Kashamu is still wanted on charges alleging his drug ring moved millions of dollars worth of heroin from Europe and Southeast Asia through O'Hare International Airport during the 1990s.

The case has frustrated prosecutors here, in part because they once had Kashamu in their grasp but lost him. English authorities arrested him when he landed there in 1998 and held him for five years during extradition hearings. Ultimately, however, British courts let Kashamu go after ruling that Chicago prosecutors had tainted their eyewitness identification evidence by failing to disclose that one of his co-defendants failed to pick him out of a photo lineup.

Over the years, a series of Chicago lawyers have argued on Kashamu's behalf, most recently in an unsuccessful 2011 appeal to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals attempting to have the charges dismissed.

Kashamu claims the real "Alaji" was his dead brother and that he has been mistakenly identified by everybody involved in the case. The government has argued that those claims are absurd, given that the witnesses include his former American lover and her sister, who recruited Kerman into the ring.

"We're still trying to figure out ways we can fix this for Buruji," said his Chicago lawyer, Scott Frankel. "They're trying to bring this guy back and then have a bunch of people who haven't seen him in years testify that he's the guy."

In her book, Kerman makes a few references to "Alaji," but she never mentions Kashamu by name and says she never met him. But her girlfriend "had stayed at his compound (in Benin) and been subject to 'witch-doctor' ministrations and was now considered his sister-in-law."

Published in 2010, five years after Kerman was released from a federal prison in Connecticut, "Orange is the New Black" immediately drew attention from Hollywood. By early 2012 — just a few months after appellate judges in Chicago refused to dismiss Kashamu's charges — Kerman had sold her story to Netflix."


http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-11-14/news/ct-met-orange-new-black-20131114_1_piper-kerman-piper-chapman-drug-case

There are a lot of people you can run from, but nobody runs away from the United States. It might take time, but eventually you will step out of Nigeria and then AMERICA AGODI.

Never liked this man anyway. Too Agberorish for my liking.

Proverbs 28:13.

He is not going to excape the next move EFCC move

To the guy above me, this man has not renounced or confessed his sins, so your scripture doesn't work for him.

Pablo Emilio Escobar a.k.a "King of Cocaine" owned the Mendellin Drug Cartel which supplied & controlled 80% of Cocaine in the world, and was rated by forbes as the 227th richest Billionaire in 1989.

On the other hand, Buruji Kashamu was just running a local drug ring in Chicago; So NO, he's not Nigeria's Pablo Escobar.

Comparing Buruji Kashamu to Pablo Escobar is just like you comparing an ant to a Lion

Zoharariel:
Pablo Emilio Escobar a.k.a "King of Cocaine" owned the Mendellin Drug Cartel which supplied & controlled 80% of Cocaine in the world, and was rated by forbes as the 227th richest Billionaire in 1989.

On the other hand, Buruji Kashamu was just running a local drug ring in Chicago; So NO, he's not Nigeria's Pablo Escobar.

Comparing Buruji Kashamu to Pablo Escobar is just like you comparing an ant to a Lion

lol! Okay.

They should just let this man be jor, drugs dealing is a life or death business which when you escape you are rich and when you get caught, you may serve a long jail term or perhaps die in some countries, but in this man's case he has escaped them, tinubu and co' casting the stones re also not saints.

K

Buruji was worth over 900million dollars in the 90s' .he affirmed that in one of his interview in 2010

Zoharariel:
Pablo Emilio Escobar a.k.a "King of Cocaine" owned the Mendellin Drug Cartel which supplied & controlled 80% of Cocaine in the world, and was rated by forbes as the 227th richest Billionaire in 1989.

On the other hand, Buruji Kashamu was just running a local drug ring in Chicago; So NO, he's not Nigeria's Pablo Escobar.

Comparing Buruji Kashamu to Pablo Escobar is just like you comparing an ant to a Lion

His comparison was somewhat appt since pablo also fought extradition to the United States.

curiox007:
Buruji was worth over 900million dollars in the 90s' .he affirmed that in one of his interview in 2010

jaybee3:

His comparison was somewhat appt since pablo also fought extradition to the United States.

As the case is still pending now, will they still inaugurate him as senator of the FGN?

I only know of one Pablo Tinubu who has the whole Lagos state on a choke-hold for ions. Kashimu has nothing on Tinubu and he has already paid homage to the Don Colion of Burddilion. .

Pablo was a legend so shouldn't be compared to Kashamu.

idu1:
As the case is still pending now, will they still inaugurate him as senator of the FGN?

Highly unlikely since there is a formal extradition request hanging over his head

curiox007:
Buruji was worth over 900million dollars in the 90s' .he affirmed that in one of his interview in 2010

Buruj is one hell of a multi- Billionaire ....The guy was a real big time drug lord in Chicago

Zoharariel:
Pablo Emilio Escobar a.k.a "King of Cocaine" owned the Mendellin Drug Cartel which supplied & controlled 80% of Cocaine in the world, and was rated by forbes as the 227th richest Billionaire in 1989.

On the other hand, Buruji Kashamu was just running a local drug ring in Chicago; So NO, he's not Nigeria's Pablo Escobar.

Comparing Buruji Kashamu to Pablo Escobar is just like you comparing an ant to a Lion

The nuts and bolts in your head are in the
RIGHT locations with that near-absolute
analysis!