OBITUARY: Finally, Buruji Kashamu's battle against extradition to U.S. ends

The former senator was wanted for years in the United States to face charges for alleged drug offences.

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Prominent Nigerians have sent their condolences to the family of the Ogun-born politician. Until death, Mr Kashamu’s life revolved around the drug allegations, politics, and his lottery business, Western Lotto Limited.In 1998, Mr Kashamu was indicted by a grand jury for conspiracy to import heroin, a prohibited substance, into the U.S.Seven months after, the UK’s Metropolitan Police arrested him while travelling with a Beninese passport.

On January 10, 2003, Timothy Workman, a magistrate in the UK, dismissed the extradition request put forward by the United States, stating among other things that Mr Kashamu indeed had a similar-looking brother who was killed in 1989 by Customs officials. PREMIUM TIMES reported the U.S. authorities’ line of argument, positing that it is not bound by Mr Workman’s conclusion that Mr Kashamu’s brother was the co-conspirator because Kashamu’s extradition proceeding was a preliminary proceeding and not a proceeding in which the full merits, and the full evidence, were considered.”

The office of the Attorney-General of the Federation filed several submissions before the Federal High Court, seeking to arrest Mr Kashamu for extradition.

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