A former senator, businessman and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Buruji Kashamu has gone into hiding over renewed moves by the federal government to grab and extradite him to the United States where he has been a fugitive for over two decades over alleged narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

Kashamu has been fighting his extradition to the United States using multiple lawsuits in Nigeria to frustrate attempts by the U.S. government to remove him under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between both countries.

Sources close to him told THEWILL that he is not taking any chances after he learned of a reenergized bid by the office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice to help the Americans arrest and extradite him “by all means necessary... Read More

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