Don’t Let Obasanjo Forcefully Take Me To US To Answer Drug Charges, Kashamu Begs NHRC

Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Senator-elect for the Ogun East Senatorial District, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has cried out to NHRC not to allow former president Olusegun Obasanjo use his ‘powers’ to get him arrested in Nigeria and then taking to US on drug charges.

Kashamu who petitioned NHRC on the 15^th of April, begged the Commission not to stand by and watch his fundamental human rights trampled upon at the behest of former President. Read the detailed report by Vanguard Newspaper after the cut.

Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Senator-elect for the Ogun East Senatorial District, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of instigating foreign security agencies to apprehend him in Nigeria and extradite him to the United States of America, USA, to answer to drug-related charges.

Consequently, he has sent a Save-My-Soul, SMS, letter to the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, insisting that the subterranean plot to ‘capture’ him has thickened.

Kashamu begged the Commission not to stand by and watch his fundamental human rights trampled upon at the behest of former President Obasanjo.

It will be recalled that it was Kashamu that p ersuaded Justice Valentine Ashi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting at Apo to order security agencies in Nigeria to confiscate Obasanjo’s autobiography entitled “My Watch”.

It took the former President to get the high court to vacate that confiscation order which had even prohibited both Vendors and Libraries in the country from as much as touching the autobiography.

Kashamu had insisted that portions of the book dwelt on his alleged involvement in drug pushing and an allegation that he is a wanted fugitive in America, a subject matter he said had already been surrendered to a competent court of jurisdiction.

Meantime, in his petition to the NHRC, Kashamu urged the  commission to investigate the alleged move to abduct him and forcibly take him to the US to answer to charges bothering on drug related offences.

The petition, dated April 15th, 2015   was written on his behalf by his lawyer,   Mr Ajibode Oluyede and entitled: “Prince Buruji Kashamu: Abduction Plans By United States of America Agents in Collaboration with Law Enforcement Agencies in Nigeria.”

The lawyer in the   petition which was addressed to the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Professor Bem Angwe, stated:   “Kashamu has instructed that we bring certain important facts and records to your attention with regard to the illegality of this plan and the malicious and unpatriotic motives of those behind it and seek your urgent intervention in accordance with the jurisdiction expressly given to your commission by the National Human Rights Act 1995 as amended to carry out and inquiry into the matter in order to establish the culpability and compromise of certain institution in this despicable plan and to protect our client’s fundamental human right to liberty, life and dignity of the person.”

Kashamu told the Commission that regardless of several decisions both in Nigeria and the United Kingdom which exonerated him from the alleged offences, desperate politicians had been putting pressure on the Attorney General of the Federation to resuscitate the US indictment against him in Nigeria and to instigate an extradition process against him on the accusations.

He maintained that the current plan to abduct him was an admission by the US authorities that there is no case against him. He insisted that it is   Obasanjo that is spreading a new witch-hunt net over him as a form of revenge against him for the comprehensive political defeat he (Obasanjo) suffered because of Kashamu in the PDP.

Kashamu told the commission that  the pressure on the AGF failed, a situation he said was owing to the absence of any document showing that he was   indicted in the US, nor any evidence that he was ever declared wanted by any authority in the US  as required by the Extradition treaty in the US and the Nigerian Extradition law.

He said that several people close to the AGF had warned him to watch his back because there were moves to have him extradited to the US.

According to his lawyer, “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, 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.

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”, he added.