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kollinzgee:
guy forget tribal sentiment in naija my female friend mercy is ikwerre whenever she comes visiting we always speak Igbo with my sister's ikwerres feel at home more with igbos than with even their fellow rivers ( fake ) brothers you see that is the reason they can sell their entire land to igbos I'm Rivers state without complain,don't let Nairaland propaganda decieve you truth is light.

you guys have complex. Have you ever heard the Yorubas try to argue whether the binis or itsekiris are Yorubas??

On January 10, 2003, Timothy Workman, a magistrate in the UK, dismissed the extradition request put forward by the United States, stating among other things that Mr Kashamu indeed had a similar-looking brother who was killed in 1989 by Customs officials. The Magistrate also found that certain assertions by the U.S. government in the extradition proceedings were untrue. He subsequently ordered the release of Mr Kashamu.

However, the United States has not relented in its quest in extraditing Mr Kashamu to the U.S. to face trial for the alleged heroin-smuggling conspiracy he led. It argued that it is not bound by Mr Workman’s conclusion that Mr Kashamu’s brother was the co-conspirator because “Kashamu’s extradition proceeding was a preliminary proceeding and not a proceeding in which the full merits, and the full evidence, were considered.”

“Magistrate Workman himself recognized that this Court and the jury were the ultimate determiners of the credibility of the witnesses, including on the issue of Kashamu’s identification as the leader of the heroin smuggling conspiracy, and that his decision was limited to the matter before him,” it stated in its response to a 2009 application by Mr Kashamu at a United States District Court Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division[/i][i][/i]

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Buruji Kashamu
Ogun State senator, Buruji Kashamu [Photo Credit: CBS News]

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. asked Buruji Kashamu to provide evidence on 9/11 attacks
ByNicholas Ibekwe June 6, 2020 5 min read
While he was in jail in the United Kingdom contesting a request by United States authorities to have him extradited to face drug trafficking charges, Buruji Kashamu, a former senator who represented Ogun East District, obtained information about the 9/11 attacks and tried to pass it over to the U.S. government, court documents recently obtained by PREMIUM TIMES have revealed.

The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated attacks by terrorists who flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Centre in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and into a field, a near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The attacks, which the U.S. government said were carried out by the Osama bin Laden-led group, Al Qaeda, killed nearly 3,000 people and left 25,000 others injured.

On December 18, 1998, the UK’s Metropolitan Police arrested Mr Kashamu, who was travelling with a Benin passport. Police found $230,000 in cash in Mr Kashamu’s possession. Meanwhile, he had seven months earlier been indicted by a grand jury for conspiracy to import heroin into the U.S.

Mr Kashamu was indicted following incriminating evidence provided by three of his alleged co-conspirators. They alleged that the man they said was also known as “Alaji” or “God” was the leader of the heroin smuggling ring. Mr Kashamu was detained at the Brixton Prison pending the completion of his extradition process which had been initiated by the United States’ Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs.

Mr Kashamu says he was not the leader of the drug-smuggling conspiracy. He has claimed that the so-called “Alaji”, the drug-smuggling kingpin was his brother, Adewale Kashamu, who was allegedly killed in 1989 by the personnel of the Nigerian Customs. He says he shared a striking resemblance with his deceased brother.

On [b]January 10, 2003, Timothy Workman, a magistrate in the UK, dismissed the extradition request put forward by the United States, stating among other things that Mr Kashamu indeed had a similar-looking brother who was killed in 1989 by Customs officials. The Magistrate also found that certain assertions by the U.S. government in the extradition proceedings were untrue. He subsequently ordered the release of Mr Kashamu.

However, the United States has not relented in its quest in extraditing Mr Kashamu to the U.S. to face trial for the alleged heroin-smuggling conspiracy he led. It argued that it is not bound by Mr Workman’s conclusion that Mr Kashamu’s brother was the co-conspirator because “Kashamu’s extradition proceeding was a preliminary proceeding and not a proceeding in which the full merits, and the full evidence, were considered.”

“Magistrate Workman himself recognized that this Court and the jury were the ultimate determiners of the credibility of the witnesses, including on the issue of Kashamu’s identification as the leader of the heroin smuggling conspiracy, and that his decision was limited to the matter before him,” it stated in its response to a 2009 application by Mr Kashamu at a United States District Court Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division.
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The U.S. government said “The government believes in good faith that Kashamu, and not any alleged brother, is the co-conspirator in this case” because two members of the Kashamu’s alleged heroin-smuggling ring, Catherine and Ellen Wolters, “independently identified Kashamu, through his arrest photograph, as the person whom they knew as “Alaji.” The government, to the undersigned attorney’s knowledge, has never received any photograph of the alleged brother and has been unable to test the veracity of Kashamu’s claim about him.”
recent as 2015, the U.S. government attempted to extradite Mr Kashamu using the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) but the attempt was aborted by an order of a Federal High Court in Abuja.

Kashamu offers to provide information about 9/11 attacks

According to an affidavit he swore to on February 2, 2009, Mr Kashamu said while he was being held in prison, he shared a cell with a “Muslim radical” who told him that there were plans to bomb the United States.

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“I informed my Chicago lawyer, Thomas Durkin, of this information and he informed the appropriate authorities. We received no response,” he wrote.

He added that after the 9/11 bombings he was contacted by a United States Attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, to provide details of what he had been told by his cellmate.

“I was told that if I pleaded guilty to the case (heroin smuggling) and provided information that I knew regarding the bombing of the World Trade Centre, I could receive a favourable plea bargain. I could not accept the offer because I am not guilty of the case,” he wrote.

A handwritten letter by S.J Humphrys, an officer at the Brixton prison written on December 30, 2001, also confirmed that Mr Kashamu met officers from Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, in respect of the said information he was told about the 9/11 attacks.

“I can confirm that D.S Andy Weld and D.C Richard Jordan from Scotland Yard (SO12 anti-terrorist Squad) came to see Mr Kashamu on 28/9/2001 and spoke at length with me present with regard to the horrific events of September 11th in New York. The meeting concluded with Mr Kashamu handing over approximately three pages of topical terrorist information,” he wrote.

“The two SO I2 officers returned at a later date collecting a further seven pages of additional terrorist information. The two officers finally came on 6/11/2001 for a further meeting with Mr Kashamu, they thank(ed) Mr Kashamu for the information and I stated it was extremely useful they then continue to ask about terrorists living in London who were linking with a terrorist that had been arrested in Washington.

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“They further stated that the U.S government were requesting that Mr Kashamu would continue to give further evidence against those terrorists in a US court. In concluding this …meeting they confirmed that the US government found the information extremely valuable.

“I can once again confirm that all those information was handed over with me present as a witness to the above proceedings,” he wrote.

On August 21, 2002, in response to a request by Mr Kashamu, his U.S. lawyer, Mr Durkin, wrote a letter to Mr Kashamu about his offer to cooperate with the United States authorities “regarding information you might have with respect to activities of interest to them.”

Mr Durkin stated that his record showed that later in March 2001 he had several conversations with Mr Fitzgerald regarding information connected to the World Trade Centre bombing case.

“My record also reflected the fact that on September 21, 2001, I received on your behalf a “proffer” letter from the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois regarding the terms of a meeting you were to have with the US agents regarding potential information concerning the attacks which occurred in New York and Virginia on September 11, 2001. This meeting took place at Brixton on October 2, 2001.

“At the meeting, Patrick Blegen of our firm forwarded eleven pages of documents to Special Agent Joe hummer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Copies of these documents were sent by facimile to me by Assistant U.S Attorney Diane MacArthur on October 3, 2001. I have maintained copies of these documents in our files, and at your request copies were forwarded to you by one of our assistants on May 22, 2002,” he wrote.

U.S. promises not to use Kashamu’s testimony against him

On September 21, 2001, Mr Fitzgerald wrote Mr Durkin about the said information his client (Mr Kashamu) offered to share with US authorities.

“As you have discussed with Assistant United States Attorney Diane MacArthur, the government is conducting an investigation into the attacks which occurred at the World Trade Centre in New York City and the Pentagon Building in Virginia on September 11, 2001.

“Of course, the government welcomes any information that may aid it in reaching a proper determination of the matter. Accordingly, the government seeks a proffer of the testimony of your client, Buruji Kashamu, regarding his knowledge of the facts underlying this matter.”

He explained that the U.S. government required that the statement to be given by Mr. Kashamu should be “completely truthful” while adding that “anything revealed to the government by you or your client, during the proffer cannot and will not be used against your client, Buruji Kashamu, in the government’s case-in-chief at trial, in the extradition proceeding pending against Kashamu… or in aggravation of your client’s sentence, in accordance with sentencing guideline 202.8.”

Contrary to My Kashamu’s claim in his affidavit that he was offered to provide the information for an offer of a plea bargain, which will lead to a reduced sentence, Mr Fitzgerald stated that the government is “completely free to pursue any and all investigative (illegible word) derived in any way from the proffer, which could result in the requisition of evidence admissible against your client.”

“Furthermore, if your client should subsequently testify contrary to the substance of the proffer, or otherwise present a position inconsistent with the proffer at sentencing for any purpose, nothing shall prevent the government from using the substance of the proffer at sentencing for the purpose, at a trial for impeachment or in rebuttal testimony, in a prosecution for perjury, or in this pending extradition proceeding.”

The letter did not say anything about a plea bargain leading to a reduction of jail term upon sentencing.

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pacespot:
Look at these hypocritical northerners of this zoo republic, once you commit crime of any sort, that has effectively taken away any right you have being a citizen of the USA or Nigeria or any country in the world, unless the investigation proves otherwise that you are Innocent. In this age of internet and globalization, going by what this PSC is saying, it means someone can easily commit fraud or crime in another country and run back to their safe haven country and the person is absolved of any charges because he is not a citizen of where the crime was committed. These Fulani's people are very annoying with their hypocritical interpretation of the law, let's see if they can mess with the FBI.

Some brilliant Nigerians are already suggesting on Twitter that they might use Western oil companies based in Niger Delta as bargaining tools to bail Kyari from extradition, once they threaten they can't guarantee the safety of oil workers in the region, the USA and its Western allies will have to sit on the round table with Fulani's to resolve this Kyari case behind the door. Let's see how the issue unfold in the coming days or weeks, failure to extradite Kyari will make FBI lose all credibility with the way it is already on social media spreading like wildfire.

so called brilliant Nigerians on Twitter are talking thrash. Nigeria doesn't need any bargaining tool. They not giving up kyari and that's it

tunapawizzy:
In the end, FG/ruling class will not cooperate with the US on this matter, then US will roll out sanctions which may bring about tougher immigration/visa processes for average Nigerians. The children of IGP and Minister of Justice and Top Govt officials will still get visas, they will still hold on to their US passports etc.... this life is rigged against the poor and powerless

lies. The USA can't do all you mentioned over a kyari matter. How much did he collect??

DoggoneDogg:
Sepp Blatter was arrested by the FBI in Switzerland despite not committing any crime in the US.

If Switzerland's sovereignty can be abused, who be Naija?

If these guys want you, they will bend their own laws to get you. Kyari is cooked!!

lies. Fbi never arrested blatter. Only an investigation

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/12/07/the-fbi-is-now-investigating-sepp-blatter-over-fifa-bribes/%3foutputType=amp

Built2last:
Ok

The hypocrisy of Fulani is grand. But they want Benin to release Sunday Igboho. They went to Kenya to kidnap Nnamdi Kanu.

This Abba Kyari case will swallow Buhari and his gang of thieves.

the people you mentioned are they public officers? No. Senator Buruji from ogun was also to be extradited but fought his way in court. So you want fbibto take our most decorated police officer for questioning so they can get Intel and info off him about how security network and how he has successfully handled crazily tough cases such as Evans and co

nairalandankrah:
Why is it that you hardly find a black man amy where in the world that reasons properly?

So,someone "manipulated" into committing an offence punishable by law, should not be held accountable for his actions??
Jesus Christ!

How am I sure this idiot is not amongst those that supported the just ended violence in south Africa?

yes in court it has to be proven that Abba kyari was aware and knew that hush puppi funds were gotten from fraud

nkemdi89:
The practice of osu can never be abolished in the east,no matter your level of education or civilization this system is an age longed tradition, that's why most of them marries outside the east, besides its a very dicey discussion in the east cos you may not know who is an osu thereby risking your life as the person you are discussing with might be which may led to him or her harming u out of frustration, also I heard that there are signs of knowing one. As long as culture continues to exist the discrimination continues, but the good thing about them is that most of are succesful people today.

what are the signs to know one

Investigative:
Simple

that is if those that will vote against the referendum will even be allowed Tonite or even if their votes will count

Nbotee:
Oga get sense na... Do U know what money laundering is at all??

you that know define it

Nbotee:
He was jailed in the UK for money laundering because he had previous records in the UK and they had been investigating him for over 10years. The Nigerian Govt tried arresting him and when he fled to Dubai they tipped interpol who arrested him and handed him over to the UK Metropolitan Police.. Why has the current govt not done same with? U lots will always blame everyone else for ur problems.. Go here and educate urself

lies.a crime is a crime. So you mean politicians who steal public funds and take to say Germany to launder and the German government looks away and does not arrest the politician is actually a fine thing to do ??

Nbotee:
Some of U will jus open ur mouth and display ur ignorance all over the Internet. Hushpuppi was committing his crimes in a foreign land and duping foreign nationals while laundering money through the US. FBI is involved becos the Qatari security agencies want them involved.

you the one saying nonsense. Why was ibori jailed in the UK? Stealing your nation's money and taking it to Europe and America to launder is a serious crime and it makes one wonder why since 1999 only ibori has been convicted on foreign soil

chatinent:
They steal under the name of sovereignty.

yeah but so many of them are now ex political leaders and so have no diplomatic immunity

Calls for answers

The USA seems to be fast at declaring so called fraudsters wanted and extraditing them to USA soil but seems slow at that when it comes to our political leaders. According to Ribadu it's said over 400 billion US dollars has been stolen from Nigeria by our political leaders since 1969-- yet not one leader has been extradited and arrested on USA soil

Isn't this a cause for concern or is the almighty USA complicit in the monumental corruption in government in Nigeria??

Kaiser20:
If FBI or any external financial detectives should investigate the so called Nigeria celebrity millionaires or billionaires and politicians 90% of them are criminals.

whites are the biggest thieves. Go read up. America was built by slaves? Isn't that illegally made money?? Britain still rakes in money from Africa bby undermining it's development. France has refused to let go of their former colonies who have to pay France protection money!!

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ChangetheChange:
Is Buhari refuses to handover Kyari, Buhari him self and members of his government will be declared persona non grata and sanctioned in United States , in the UK (where he goes for medical checkup) and other allied countries to United States

what a joke. You know nothing about international law so shaaarap

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lkillbrokehoes:
A wealthy billionaire would think otherwise, if jeff bezos could spend $28 million to travel to space for few minutes, then buying this pieces of arts is just a peanut to him.

nah Jeff Bezos didn't spend 28 million dollars. He spent over 5 billion US dollars.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/jeff-bezos-space-flight-money-better-uses/?template=next

Lucrativress:
When people go vulgar,I only see someone who has nothing intelligent to say
So I pass
Thank you

you went vulgar when you called men worthless. You biitchhth

pansophist:
When you're hiding your sophistication from your potential partner,  Why would you think the other person is not discerning enough to see your game plan and play along? Also, what's the assurance that even if the person pass the virtue test and later realise you're rich for example, that their hibernated materialism will not be reactivated?

Furthermore, the idea of downplaying your sophistication is a consequence of imbalalance in their respective social status, which to me, is not a good protocol. Generally, you should actually marry your class, because even if a woman/man married you after passing your so called test, the dynamics associated with a huge gap in social status between them is a deal breaker in most relationship.

I mean think about it, even if you pass my test, will your family pass it too? Will I not be guilt-tripped to pay for your grandma medical fees? Even if I'm capable, won't it periodically ring as exploitation in my head? If I refuse, won't it make our home toxic ? Different social status in many cases also implies different work ethics and view of the world, so how is this sustainable in the long term?

Your potential partner should be the kind that pushes you to be better, that their value in your eyes will call forth your best, making you spotlighting your uniqueness as a compelling force to secure their commitment.  Downplaying yourself also implies that they are not a challenge, same way you won't downplay yourself to an employer. It's a sub-optimal solution. People should date themselves, don't just jump into a committed relationship, talk more of marriage.

I was friend with my spouse for at least two years before we even started dating, and all through the friendship period, I already knew her kind of personality, so there was no need us to downplay or hide anything. Experience like they say, it's the best teacher. So for me, it's a big no. If securing your commitment doesn't call forth the best in me, doesn't make me calibrate, redact, enhance and spotlight all my sophistication to blow you mind, then you're probably not that worthy. This has been my formula and it works for me well.

rubbish. A relationship with an employer is not like that with a spouse. Or can you wake up one morning and Rell your wife you fired and off he or she goes?? It's important you test the spirit. Marriages have challenges and not all are financial. So many others. You should marry someone who can stand with you thick or thin

Lucrativress:
A good man without money and prospects isn't a man,he is just a living being,his goodness is worthless
Good won't buy 1,2,3 Baby's food and Cerelac you know
Everyone are after their future security, don't blame women soo much,blame the men going for leeches,but don't expect a good and ideal woman to settle for your Korean movie drama's,women are hypergamous in nature, it's naturally imbibed in them,so wake up Fairyman

a good woman without money is also very worthless. You stuupiid