Judge threatens to withdraw from Kashamu’s extradition suit

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Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday threatened to withdraw from an extradition suit brought before him by Sen. Buruji Kashamu.

The suit is seeking to stop the Federal Government form extraditing him to the U.S. to face trial in an alleged hard drugs offence.He threatened to opt out of the fresh suit, filed in 2018, if it is related to the same extradition matter.

The counsel commended the judge for raising the issue of propriety by him to adjudicate on the two fresh suits, filed by Kashamu in 2018. Esson explained that the current suit was predicated on the unlawful invasion and siege laid on her client’s house for six days by operatives of the NDLEA.

 

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