The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency( NDLEA ) has for the first time given graphic details of why the United States is desperate to seek the extradition of Senator Buruji Kashamu from Nigeria.
In court papers filed by the NDLEA to oppose Buruji’s legal bid to stop the extradition, the NDLEA said Buruji is wanted in the USA because of the 6.6kg of heroin he allegedly imported into the country in 1994.
The Anti-Drug Law agency claimed that the Senator who represented Ogun East Senatorial District in the 8th Assembly, imported the hard drug into the USA as the head of a large drug smuggling syndicate operating in Africa, Asia, Europe and America at the period.
In the 54-paragraph counter affidavit filed at the court, to debunk the innocence of the Senator, the NDLEA averred that Kashamu was indicted for hard drug offences in the USA.
“But he escaped while his alleged co-offenders were arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in America.
“Following Kashamu’s escape, the US government in 2015 dispatched to Nigerian government a request for his extradition,”the NDLEA said.
NDLEA insisted that there was a valid and subsisting indictment against him in the United States District of Illinois, Eastern Division supported also with valid order for the arrest of the senator.
