₦airaland Forum

Following the house arrest of senator-elect from Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the United States Department of Justice has said it is “fully ready to assist” Nigeria with proper documentation on his extradition and express trial before a US District Judge in Chicago, Judge Charles Richard Norgle.

The NDLEA had, through its Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Ofoyeju Mitchell, disclosed that the agency’s men invaded Kashamu’s residence in Lekki, Lagos State last Saturday in response to the extradition request formally made to the Nigerian government by its American counterpart.

However, in a brief chat with LEADERSHIP yesterday, the trial judge, Norgle, said the Justice Department is “fully ready to ensure that an express hearing is given” to the case once Kashamu is brought before him to face the charge.

Apart from using the name of his younger brother, Adewale Kashamu – who the accused had claimed is dead – to obtain a Nigerian passport with registration number A870428 to transport drugs from Nigeria and the Federal Republic of Benin into the United States of America for several years up till 1994, Norgle said Kashamu, the leader of the drug cartel which had its base in Chicago, Illinois, had also used pseudo names like ‘Alhaji, Kasmal and Daddy’ for the illicit deals. The international passport was issued on April 20, 1990 in Abuja and it expired on April 19, 1995.

Other members of the drug cartel who are presently observing jail terms in different US prisons are Emmanuel Ugbade, Toun (surname not ascertained), Nicolas Fillmore, Cleary Wolters, Ellen Wolters, Oumiou Samadou, Gbenga Giwa and Akim Shokunbi.

Further investigations by LEADERSHIP revealed that the US Department of Justice had, penultimate Monday, made a formal request to the Nigerian government to “expressly and legally extradite Price Buruji” to America to face criminal charges.

The investigation also discovered video proofs which the United States legal department is willing to tender before Norgle as parts of the body of evidences showing that the accused had been going in and out of America to conduct drug-related business, contrary to his claims that he had “never stepped feet” on the soil of the country.

Kashamu was arrested in Britain in 1998 and held for five years before he was unconditionally released in 2003 by the Royal Court of Justice in England presided over by Lord Justice Pill and Mr. Justice Bell. The judges said that they were releasing the accused person who, upon his arrest, had over £350,000 in his possession, because the US Justice Department could not substantiate its claims that he (Kashamu) was the most wanted Alhaji Adewale Kashamu who was allegedly mentioned by others arrested as their principal conspirator.

He was arrested upon his arrival at the Heathrow International Airport with a Nigerian passport bearing Buruji Kashamu, but the UK judges dismissed it as a case of mistaken identity, stressing that the Chicago prosecutors had also tainted their eyewitness identification evidence by failing to disclose that one Nicolas Fillmore, one of the co-defendants, failed to pick him (Buruji) out of a photo line-up.

http://leadership.ng/news/436102/us-prepares-for-buruji-kashamus-extradition-discloses-fresh-evidence

Good riddance to bad rubbish

They should take the drug dealer off our country jare.

how I wish they take him, so that he will mention his masters name there too.(TINUBU) he has denied the poor guy now, but when the drug business was booming for them they are friend. tinubu started drugs in this country. its a fact and we all know that. quote me and your generation will run mad.

doublewisdom:
They should take the drug dealer off our country jare.

If you see the number of NDLEA hefty looking guys around the man house, you go pity am. No way for the guy to escape anywhere oo

Can't wait to see the end,hate it when my tribe commits cheap crimes

MKO4ever:
If you see the number of NDLEA hefty looking guys around the man house, you go pity am. No way for the guy to escape anywhere oo

Pity keh? Abi I dey happy for here. I get personal beef with the man. I hate betrayals and betrayers

I thought they don't do drugs. ...it's funny all their leaders are international criminals. ...

na normal thing

thiefs been someone's role model

Finally the "Alhaji Of Chicago" is will have a free visa and flight to America - many pray and fast for this to no avail.

He shouldn't even worry about being extradited back to the U.S, because his regular meal of Amala with Moet&Chandon will be shipped to him via FedEx by Ayo Fayose atleast twice in a week.

u r a fool...infact, i love the way yorubas do things..they dot celebrate criminal like easterners

OREMUSSANCTUS:
South west why
Why sell ya own
Stop being "slave" to d wite cum not

OREMUSSANCTUS:
South west why
Why sell ya own
Stop being "slave" to d wite cum not

South West does not harbour criminal be it Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Efik, Ijaw, e.t.c
Say No To Drug Baron
Buruji should even be happy because he is not been extradited to Indonesia where it is capital punishment.

IF this man is guilty as described he may have to consider suicide and his family can sue the NDLEA for aiding his untimely death by denying him access to medical care due to the siege!

Be like say US get personal beef with dis Kashamu of a thing.

He is finished!!! He had better commit suicide now

I find this funny - a british court let him go on mistaken identity

But here in Nigeria we want to persecute him without trying him

No need of any further evidence...It's obvious

Goodone

Abeg, take that monkey by fire by thunder. We don't need him here!

Free visa, free meal, free ticket and the monkey decided to lock himself away from these goodies. What's he hiding from if he is not guilty? Why is he running away if he ain't a drug baron? Extradite that monkey by firefire

tkcosby02:
Be like say US get personal beef with dis Kashamu of a thing.

The Agbaya of Owu and his alleged CIA connections may be behind the man's troubles.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
South west why
Why sell ya own
Stop being "slave" to d wite cum not

Drugs Pusher

Say NO to IMPUNITY to the corrupt ones, just like Kashamu many more are still going down with GEJ i dont care what party they belong to. CLEAN UP NIGERIA and the country shall glow again.

Your tribe thats not a slave to the white was last seen trying to beg America to help them realize their biafra dream Oponu

OREMUSSANCTUS:
South west why
Why sell ya own
Stop being "slave" to d wite cum not

U.S shouldn't worry, I'm sure by Saturday he will not only come out of his house but will be in a black Maria heading to kotonkarif prison. I trust baba on that one. when I hear U.S say hand corrupt leaders over to us so we can try and punish them, I begin to wonder. what punishment are they talking about, what prison, a presidential hotel suite in the name of prison? no I disagree with them, they should help out and see that they are tried and convicted hear in Nigeria. at least let them smell the rotten part of the law. this our politicians are so heartless and wicked. he has to serve his punishment here in Nigeria so that he can feel the pain they are putting the citizens of this country through.

Safe

It's a very big lie.
Why should the U.S waste their money in extraditing Kashamu who is a small scale drug dealer ??
Why won't they extradite Bola Tinubu who was a big time drug lord in 4 of the U.S states ( Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania & Kentucky ) ??


I tell you what ??
This is a fat lie.
The U.S government will not extradite Kashamu.
Let em come for Tinubu first.