A
group, the Coalition for Rule of Law has commended the Appeal Court
sitting in Lagos for his declaration that the Senator Representing Ogun
East Senatorial District, Senator Buruji Kashamu can now be arrested.
The
groups’s National Coordinator, Tade Adebiyi in a Media release in Abuja
on Saturday, said the Appeal Court verdict delivered on Friday, has
once again affirmed its position that the Senator, wanted by the US
authorities to face trial for drug trafficking is “a fugitive running
away from the law. It therefore, urged the Federal Government to,
without further delay, bundle the Senator in question to the United
States.
On February 8, 2017, the
Coalition for Rule of Law, had written a letter addressed to the Vice
President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, stating that the continue failure of
the Federal Government to extradite the “wanted” Senator was an
embarrassment to Nigeria. A copy of the letter signed by the group’s
National Coordinator, Tade Adebiyi, was also sent to the United States
Ambassador to Nigeria.
The
group, in the letter, recalled that the US Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeal recently upheld the judgment of a lower court that Kashamu should
be brought to trial in the US.
It
noted that Kashamu’s case remained “a big minus for the Muhammadu
Buhari administration, adding that Nigerians abroad were being subjected
to ridicule because of the case.”
The
group recalled that the Senator, representing Ogun East had been
“patronising President Muhammadu Buhari through newspaper interviews and
advertorials.”
“If the
embattled Senator is not working for the Presidency, as he has been
boasting, we urged the Federal Government to extradite him without
further delay, failure to which we shall have no other option than to
approach the court to seek the order of mandamus to compel the Attorney
General to perform his official obligation”, the statement added.
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