Senator Buruji Kashamu has filed a suit in the
US in a bid to halt extradition plans against him.
In the suit, Kashamu is urging the United States
District Court to stop all attempts to abduct him
from Nigeria or any other country, according to
Premium Times.
The Senator also claimed that failure to grant
his request would lead to him abducted and
possibly killed or injured.
“The threatened abduction violates the treaty
between the United States and Nigeria and due
process under the Fifth Amendment to the United
States Constitution,” Mr. Kashamu said through
his lawyers, Robert Cohen and Scott Frankel .
Defendants in the suit are US Attorney General,
Eric Holder , the US Department of Justice,
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI), James Comey and the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security among others.
Kashamu is facing extradition from Nigeria to
face charges of drug dealing levelled against
him in Chicago in 1998.
The Senator has made two earlier attempts to
get the charges dropped by courts in the US but
was unsuccessful.


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