A Peoples Democratic Party chief in Ogun State
and Ogun East Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu,
has accused former President Olusegun
Obasanjo of working with local and foreign
security agencies to extradite him to the United
States of America through illegal means.
Buruji said Obasanjo was involved in the alleged
plot to extradite him to the United States over
drug related indictment in the foreign land
because of the defeat the former President had
suffered in the PDP.
The senator-elect, through his lawyer, Mr.
Ajibola Oluyede, said this in a petition to the
National Human Rights Commission, seeking
investigation into an alleged plan to abduct him
and forcibly extradite him to the US.
The petition, dated April 15, 2015 and addressed
to the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof.
Bem Angwe, is entitled, ‘Prince Buruji Kashamu:
Abduction plans by United States of America
agents in collaboration with law enforcement
agencies in Nigeria’.
“The current plan to abduct him (Kashamu) is
an admission by the US authorities that there is
no case against him and is a design instigated
and commissioned by Obasanjo who seeks
revenge against him for the comprehensive
political defeat Obasanjo suffered because of
Kashamu in the PDP,” Oluyede wrote.
Oluyede urged the NHRC to urgently intervene
“in accordance with the jurisdiction expressly
given to your commission by the National
Human Rights Act 1995 as amended to carry
out an inquiry into the matter in order to
establish the culpability and compromise of
certain institutions in this despicable plan and to
protect our client’s fundamental human right to
liberty, life and dignity of hisperson.”
Kashamu explained that despite previous court
decisions both in Nigeria and the United
Kingdom exonerating him of alleged offences,
“desperate politicians” were still mounting
pressure on the Attorney General of the
Federation to resuscitate the US indictment
against him in Nigeria to extradite him to the
US.
Oluyede however, said the pressure on the
AGF did not work because as the US authorities
had never made a request for Kashamu to be
extradited to the US as required by the
Extradition Treaty the US and Nigeria as well as
the Nigerian Extradition law.
The petition reads, “Kashamu’s enquiry revealed
that indeed there had been moves by US
officials within the region to secure the
assistance of the head of the INTERPOL
division in Nigeria, Mr. Solomon Arase, a Deputy
Inspector General of Police, for the arrest and
delivery to the US officials of Kashamu for
transportation to the US without following the
due process required by the Nigeria Extradition
Act.
“Mr. Kashamu’s informant revealed that Arase
has confirmed that one Donna Chabot
approached him in January 2015. The said Ms
Chabot is an Attache Department of Homeland
Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
at the American Embassy route Des Almedies
BP 49 Dakar Senegal and requested that
INTERPOL Nigeria assist in the abduction of
Kashamu for the purpose of his forcible
transportation to the US to face trial before
Judge Norgel.”