A FEDERAL High Court in Abuja has restrained the Attorney general of the Federation (AGF), the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and its immediate past Chairman, Ahmadu Giade from taking steps to arrest, detain or abduct Senator Buruji Kashamu, Senator representing Ogun East.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole, yesterday, gave the order in a ruling on an ex-parte motion filed in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/479/2015 by Kashamu.

A similar order was however granted on Monday, which Justice Kolawole said would last until yesterday upon his ruling, extending the order till the determination of a motion on notice filed by Kashamu seeking the committal of the AGF, NDLEA and Giade to prison for allegedly disobeying the court’s earlier order made on July 1, 2015.

Justice Kolawole had also last year, dismissed an extradition proceeding initiated against Kashamu by the immediate past Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, on May 28, 2015, on the ground that it was without merit.
Kashamu, in his fresh application, alleged that the respondents, having failed to obtain the consent of any court to extradite him, have now resorted to “subterranean, perhaps invidious steps to circumvent the judicial process in order to achieve their ultimate goal of abducting him and shipping him, under the cover of judicial darkness, to the United States on allegation on which British courts had exonerated him.”

The court’s order therefore instructs that the respondents and their agents are restrained from “arresting, detaining, procuring or applying for any warrant for the arrest of the applicant for any purpose connected with the false allegation of unlawful importation of prohibited narcotic substances into the United States of America in respect of which the applicant has been exonerated by British court, including the purpose of transporting him to the United States (U.S.) without recourse to due extradition process as prescribed by Nigerian laws, until for committal filed by the applicant is heard and determined.”

Justice Kolawole expressing dismay over the allegation saying: “I hope it was not true because such development was capable of casting the country in bad light.”
He however expressed confidence in the capacity of the current AGF, Abubakar Malami, to prevent such incident from reoccurring under his watch.