The government of the United States of America has begun fresh moves to extradite Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu to face drug trafficking charges, which he has been evading for several years now.

This was revealed by his lawyer, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, in a petition to the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC.

In the petition, Oluyede also accused former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, of being behind the plot to extradite Kashamu.

According to Oluyede, “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 of Police, 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.

“Mr. Kashamu’s informant revealed that Arase has confirmed that Donna Chabot approached him in January 2015. The said Ms Chabot is an attaché with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs 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 U.S. to face trial before Judge Norgel.”

According to Saharareporters, the name of the self-acclaimed philanthropist and a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, came up in a Court ruling dated September 25, 2009 by Judge Charles R. Norgle of the United States District Court in Chicago, Illinois in which the Judge upheld Kashamu’s indictment by the U.S government on drug trafficking charges and conspiracy to smuggle heroin into the country. Kashamu was described by the U.S government as the kingpin of the drug cartel.

In his response, Kashamu published several rebuttals in the newspapers and alleged that he was not the one being sought after by the United States Government, but that the alleged crime was committed by one of his brothers who is now dead. Kashamu, in his defence, also claims that he had been cleared by a British Court and produced what purports to be the decision of a Magistrates’ Court in England. Kashamu also referred to his issuance of German visa sequel to his clearance by international security agencies as a further proof that he is not a fugitive and that the U.S. may have been looking for a wrong person.

However, the matter is far from over as the United States government insists that the man the U.S government is looking for is no other person than Buruji Kashamu, not his brother and that the government of the U.S. still regards Buruji Kashamu as a drug kingpin and a fugitive from the United States law. The U.S. further states that it has never withdrawn its warrant of arrest against Kashamu, maintaining further that the charges against Kashamu remain pending and will request for his extradition from Nigeria in due course.

The United States Government has also accused Buruji Kashamu of using fraudulent means to obtain a German Visa in 2009. The U.S government notes in its brief that Kashamu communicated with German officials using the name “Buruji Kashamu Shodipe” instead of Buruji Kashamu. According to the U.S. government, Kashamu was indicted in the United States under the name “Buruji Kashamu” and the warrant of arrest against him was issued in that same name. It is the position of the U.S. that any confusion by German officials that led to the issuance of a Schengen visa to Kashamu may have been caused by Kashamu’s use of the surname “Shodipe” in his application and communications with the German consulate.

Saharareporters investigation has revealed that there is indeed, a pending criminal action against Mr. Buruji before the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois involving fifteen people. The Case 1:94-cr-00172 is before Hon. Judge Charles R. Norgle. While Kashamu’s other coconspirators had been jailed, Kashamu’s case is being held under the fugitive Calendar.

In February, 2009, Kashamu hired a team of lawyers to appear for him in the case for the purpose of filing a Motion requesting the Court to quash the arrest warrant which his lawyers led by Pravin B. Rao did.

In the Motion to quash the arrest warrant, Mr. Pravin Rao made copious reference to the United Kingdom’s extradition proceedings in which Kashamu was freed after spending five years in British jail. His lawyers also pleaded res judicata and argued that the U.K. decisions are final and should therefore, be binding on the U.S.

In its response, the United States government disagreed with Kashamu on all four grounds and argued that Kashamu’s Motion to quash arrest warrant should be denied by the Court. On September, 25, 2009, the District Court Judge upheld the U.S. position and denied Kashamu’s Motion to quash his arrest warrant. The judge also declared Buruji Kashamu a fugitive.

However, Kahamu’s lawyers filed another Motion praying the Court to reconsider its decision of September 25, 2009.

Trouble started for Kashamu when in March 1994, defendant Kary Hayes, a passenger arriving at O’Hare International Airport (“O’Hare”) on a flight from Zurich, Switzerland, was arrested after he tried to smuggle into the United States a suitcase containing approximately 14.16 pounds of heroin. Hayes was one of a long line of couriers in a heroin smuggling operation allegedly led by Kashamu. The government charged Hayes and other couriers after this initial arrest. Many of these couriers cooperated and provided information about their contacts with Kashamu.

On May 21, 1998, a grand jury charged Kashamu and others in a Second Superseding Indictment with conspiracy to import heroin into the United States in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 963. Between July 7, 1998 and January 27, 1999, nine of the fourteen defendants named in the Second Superseding Indictment pleaded guilty. These nine defendants admitted their participation in the heroin smuggling organization and all acknowledged that Kashamu, the man they called “Alaji” or “God,” was the person ultimately in charge of the heroin smuggling organization. Some of these couriers, including defendants Catherine Cleary Wolters and Nicholas Fillmore, Jr., had visited with Kashamu at his residence in Benin in connection with the heroin smuggling organization.

One of the couriers, defendant Ellen Wolters, had a romantic relationship with Kashamu. The smuggling trips and trips to visit Kashamu in Benin were documented by, among other things, money transfer orders from Western Union and American Express, flight records, credit card charges, hotel records, and telephone call detail records. The telephone records, for example, reflected calls from the couriers to Kashamu’s residence in Benin.

Kashamu was ordered detained following his December 1998 arrest and he was incarcerated in London’s Brixton Prison during the pendency of extradition proceedings based on the government’s warrant in the instant case.

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/04/u-s-requests-for-buruji-kashamus-extradition/

Oya mr. Buruji d food wen u order don come..
Pack ur load go America go tell dem dat cock n bull story wey u been dey talk say alhaji na ur younga broda.. ode.. I sure say even u sef no believe dat ur story

Give us some more time,we will soon deliver him.We don't even need him.The eagle protecting him has lost its wings

As for me,a drug dealer is better than looters like Obasanjo,Tinubu,Atiku etc.
At least,nobody forces another person to take drugs.
And ofcourse,drug dealers are way better than Buhari's brothers who kill and bomb and main on d slightest provocation,sometimes,even b/c of a cartoon drawn in faraway Denmark.

Hehehe...at last!
Soon,gone will be the days of chilling in the backseat of his Black Jeep( forgotten the make).
You definitely have to face what people like you deserve.

Bleep with OBJ.. kashamu should better make peace with OBJ and retract all what he said against him..he should know better.. egbe isu ko ni iyan.. meaning: Yam and Pounded yam are not of the same level.

Okkay

Lmao!!!

Tic toc tic tic... I hope the day they whisk him away Obj's nearby to give him one good last laugh.

I know say the guy fit dey find "presidential pardon " from the clueless one.

Mr Buruji.....kindly buy Delta ticket and go for a short vacation in the USA to put all these allegations to rest once and for all. We believe your story jare. Awon americans yen man so katakata ni.

omenka:
Lmao!!!

Tic toc tic tic... I hope the day they whisk him away Obj's nearby to give him one good last laugh.

it is so sad to see a man that forgets history & play god to another man. OBJ is an ingrate. How will he so soon forget how he was saved from the gallows by good spirited Nigerians & providence.

What will OBJ benefit if Buruji Kuruji goes to jail? In 2003 this same Kashamu sponsored many of OBJ‘s campaign tour & donated so many vehicles to OBJ‘s campaign.

A weak man is that man who can not forgive but goes all the way to rubish that man that offended him.

If Adenuga can survive OBJ... Buruji can.
If Amaechi can survive OBJ... Buruji can.
If Tinubu can survive OBJ... Buruji can.

If the Igbos can survive OBJ... Buruji can & will survive this odeal.

Chai! Kashamu una don enter one chance. E be like say den no go let you enjoy this your senate seat.

Make Una carry am go. We no even no who him be

Who else believes that it is a SLAP on us that such a person is going to the Senate to "make" laws for Nigerians.

I am hesitating to call Kashamu guilty, as charged BUT if he continues to run away from the USA; then it rightly means he has questions to answer.

I thought he said it is one alhaji not him, oh he said it is Obasonjo that set him up.

He must go finish up his mess in the U.S. Such a person is not fit to be at the hallowed chambers of the Nigerian Legistlature

dokyOloye:
As for me,a drug dealer is better than looters like Obasanjo,Tinubu,Atiku etc.
At least,nobody forces another person to take drugs.
And ofcourse,drug dealers are way better than Buhari's brothers who kill and bomb and main on d slightest provocation,sometimes,even b/c of a cartoon drawn in faraway Denmark.

see mumu reasoning. smh

Tvegas:
Mr Buruji.....kindly buy Delta ticket and go for a short vacation in the USA to put all these allegations to rest once and for all. We believe your story jare. Awon americans yen man so katakata ni.

Person wey den wan fry, you con dey advise him sey make e rub him body with oil and salt, den con sit beside fire.

the united states will NEVER forgive a crime even if it is their citizen, even if it takes 50 long years. death is d only thing that can separate kashamu from CIA/FBI or interpol. with GMB at d centre, all is not well for kashamu, Umar Diko comes to mind.

the case might hv died down but the americans would hv been angered that he even had d effrontery to contest an election.

Chigold101:
it is so sad to see a man that forgets history & play god to another man. OBJ is an ingrate. How will he so soon forget how he was saved from the gallows by good spirited Nigerians & providence.

What will OBJ benefit if Buruji Kuruji goes to jail? In 2003 this same Kashamu sponsored many of OBJ‘s campaign tour & donated so many vehicles to OBJ‘s campaign.

A weak man is that man who can not forgive but goes all the way to rubish that man that offended him.

If Adenuga can survive OBJ... Buruji can.
If Amaechi can survive OBJ... Buruji can.
If Tinubu can survive OBJ... Buruji can.

If the Igbos can survive OBJ... Buruji can & will survive this odeal.

What has Igbo got to do with Obj, haahhaaa must you tribalize everything.

Chigold101:
it is so sad to see a man that forgets history & play god to another man. OBJ is an ingrate. How will he so soon forget how he was saved from the gallows by good spirited Nigerians & providence.

What will OBJ benefit if Buruji Kuruji goes to jail? In 2003 this same Kashamu sponsored many of OBJ‘s campaign tour & donated so many vehicles to OBJ‘s campaign.

A weak man is that man who can not forgive but goes all the way to rubish that man that offended him.

If Adenuga can survive OBJ... Buruji can.
If Amaechi can survive OBJ... Buruji can.
If Tinubu can survive OBJ... Buruji can.

If the Igbos can survive OBJ... Buruji can & will survive this odeal.

So you consider it bad if he goes to jail? Are Nigerians not being jailed on daily basis for stealing mere pot of soup or fowls? Is he better or more than James Ibori, who is serving his Jail terms in the U.K? You must an accomplice and you must be treated as such!

Kashamu knew there was fire on the mountain but there was no where to run run, run to

kropotkin2:
see mumu reasoning. smh

ode,give me a reason why dealing on drugs is worse than looting,don't just stop at shouting mumu.
So think again and know who is mumu now.

dokyOloye:
ode,give me a reason why dealing on drugs is worse than looting,don't just stop at shouting mumu.
So think again and know who is mumu now.

so in your wraped sense of reasoning you say buruji should be left off the hook because obj and tinubu allegedly looted the treasury? na mumu reasoning be dat

kropotkin2:
so in your wraped sense of reasoning you say buruji should be left off the hook because obj and tinubu allegedly looted the treasury? na mumu reasoning be dat

Ewu,it is "warped" not "wraped".
Obj,Tinubu and co are still looting Nigeria even till today and stashing d funds in d US and co and d hypocritical white man will turn his face d other way because their economy will take a hit if those monies are repatriated while they claim to be busy investigating a drug offence that occurred in the 90s,do U not see anything wrong wt that?
And pls,when writing ppl's names,do well to start it with a capital letter.
Thank me later.

dokyOloye:
As for me,a drug dealer is better than looters like Obasanjo,Tinubu,Atiku etc.
At least,nobody forces another person to take drugs.
And ofcourse,drug dealers are way better than Buhari's brothers who kill and bomb and main on d slightest provocation,sometimes,even b/c of a cartoon drawn in faraway Denmark.

What an immature fool, thou I wouldn't know if u r a minor

dokyOloye:
As for me,a drug dealer is better than looters like Obasanjo,Tinubu,Atiku etc.
At least,nobody forces another person to take drugs.
And ofcourse,drug dealers are way better than Buhari's brothers who kill and bomb and main on d slightest provocation,sometimes,even b/c of a cartoon drawn in faraway Denmark.

Chai, this boy calm down. Allow your brain to finish developing before using it.

Holatunde007:


What an immature fool, thou I wouldn't know if u r a minor

This is how we detect empty headed morons like U.
Instead of arguing wt points,they resort to abuse.
Let me help U,U can compare and contrast in a tabular manner d adverse effect of drug dealing and d mindless looting of d scarce resources of Nigeria,where 70% of d masses live under 1 dollar per day.
Ewu.

Holatunde007:


What an immature fool, thou I wouldn't know if u r a minor

look critically at Ur diction(google can help U on that) and mine and tell Urself d truth about who comes across like an immature fool.
Oil soup bastard.

Time is running out for him. There are some powerful forces behind the scene and they aren't happy with him. If he is guilty, I hope karma catch up with him.

dokyOloye:
Ewu,it is "warped" not "wraped".
Obj,Tinubu and co are still looting Nigeria even till today and stashing d funds in d US and co and d hypocritical white man will turn his face d other way because their economy will take a hit if those monies are repatriated while they claim to be busy investigating a drug offence that occurred in the 90s,do U not see anything wrong wt that?
And pls,when writing ppl's names,do well to start it with a capital letter.
Thank me later.

im done wasting my time with you. your case is hopeless. your mumuness is beyond redemption. you will thank me later

Chigold101:
it is so sad to see a man that forgets history & play god to another man. OBJ is an ingrate. How will he so soon forget how he was saved from the gallows by good spirited Nigerians & providence.

What will OBJ benefit if Buruji Kuruji goes to jail? In 2003 this same Kashamu sponsored many of OBJ‘s campaign tour & donated so many vehicles to OBJ‘s campaign.

A weak man is that man who can not forgive but goes all the way to rubish that man that offended him.

If Adenuga can survive OBJ... Buruji can.
If Amaechi can survive OBJ... Buruji can.
If Tinubu can survive OBJ... Buruji can.

If the Igbos can survive OBJ... Buruji can & will survive this odeal.

Obj is not responsible for Kashamu's crisis so what are you talking about?.
Kashamu should have known that his sins shall surely find him, bottomline, stay clean, crime does not pay.