Kashamu vows 'people will die' before he is successfully extradited

> Buruji Kashamu, a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is in trouble following a US Appeal Court ruling on his extradition

> Kashamu has however called the ruling illegal and says any attempt to forcefully take him away will result in the spilling of blood

Embattled Senator Buruji Kashamu has warned that any attempt to forcefully extradite him to the United States to face criminal charges would end in violence that could take the lives of up to five people.

Kashamu says he cannot be extradited without people dying

He says he was employing the services of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) for protection henceforth.

He did not say for sure how the people would be killed, but added that he was sure that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government would not oblige to the extradition request.

The Punch reports him as saying: “About three, four or five people will die.”

An Appeal Court in the US recently ruled that Kashamu could be extradited from anywhere in the world to answer to charges of his involvement in banned substances.

But the senator says the ruling was illegal as the case had been brought to rest by the judgement of two British courts 14 years ago as well as three Nigerian courts in 2015.

Kashamu has always claimed that he was mistaken for his younger brother, Adewale Kashamu, and was exonerated.

He however blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for reviving the dead issue.

“There is no extradition that can be brought against me again. The only thing they can do is to watch and catch me on the road; take me to the airport or Cotonou or throw me inside a vessel and take me through the Atlantic Ocean. But I am not going to let that happen.

“I don’t go to the beach, and now, I will go and hire OPC, may be like 40. I will load them (in my vehicle), because the day we meet, one has to kill one.

“That is for sure! One has to kill one because I am not ready to go anywhere. Before that happens, maybe about three, four or five people will die.

“But I do not believe that this government can entertain this kind of rubbish. I do believe that this government has integrity and they (officials) are credible; they believe in the rule of law, because if they want to do it, they could have done it.

“Obasanjo has been pushing them, using one Sandra, a former ambassador of the United States; he’s the one pushing everybody, meeting all these judges, but what have I done?

“My brother was living in Chicago, I sent him to school. He’s very well educated. He was the one having girlfriends there; he was the one who caused a lot of problems.

“Even when I was in London, they still traced almost $2m into his bank account while I was in prison; they still continued doing the transaction. If you go through the last British judgment, it is there. The Interpol people were the ones who went to the bank and got all the information, and carried all the documents, they came to London and gave evidence in court.

“The Beninoise Interpol produced evidence showing that the Benin telephone number, through which the US offenders communicated with their West African collaborators, belonged to my brother, Adewale Kashamu, and not me, Buruji Kashamu.

“When they were looking for him, the NDLEA people went to his house here; they searched his house. They went to his car company, they sealed his car company and they took over 30 vehicles from there. He ran away.

“He was using the office of Remi Adiukwu Oluwalogbon on Allen Avenue. For three good years, he did not pay Remi Adiukwu. The NDLEA people sealed the car company and they confirmed this in one of their letters,” he said.