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Kashamu’s Extradition and Nigeria’s Sovereignty

After watching with keen interest and rapt attention the ugly development orchestrated by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, which later degenerated into a Nollywood movie scene at Lekki, Lagos residence of Ogun East Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu on the purported extradition request from the United States government, myriads of thoughts started racing through my highly agitated mind not for any personal sympathy for the person in question, but for that irrefutable fact that Buruji Kashamu is a Nigerian like me, and remains entitled to his fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution until proven guilty in a competent Court of law. Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu have been in a running battle with US government for almost two decades now over allegation of his involvement in drug-related offences. The allegation was that the Nigerian-born Politician trafficked drugs between Europe and South-east Asia through Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport ...