ernment from extraditing him to United States of America for trial over alleged hard drug trafficking offence.
He claimed in his originating summon that two staff of the NDLEA had alerted him of the moves by the two respondents to give effect to the extradition request of the American government against him. He however said that the two judgments of the high court delivered in 2015 were on May 4 last year voided and set aside by the court of appeal Lagos division.
The Anti-Drug agency claimed that the senator, who represented Ogun East Senatorial District in the 8th Senate, allegedly imported the hard drug to the USA in his capacity as the head of a large drug smuggling syndicate operating in Africa, Asia, Europe and America at the period. NDLEA insisted that there is a valid and subsisting indictment against Buruji Kashamu in the United States’ District of Illinois, Eastern Division supported also with valid of arrest for the serving senator.
“The applicant Buruji Kashamu was further charged with a second superseding indictment filed on May 21, 1998 for conspiracy to import heroin into the United States of America following repeated seizures of heroin similarly alleged to be emanating from him.
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