Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, counsel to the embattled Ogun-East Senator-elect, Prince Buruji Kashamu has disclosed that not fewer than 15 hooded armed operatives of the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have locked up Kashamu inside a toilet and occupied his bedroom since last Saturday.
The lawyer made the shocking revelation today while speaking with Channels TV on the phone this morning.
Oluyede who claimed that Buruji had been locked in the toilet since around 6:30 am on Saturday when the anti-narcotic operatives stormed his residence added that he had speaking to him through the door of the toilet.
He said, ‘As I speak with you, there are about fifteen armed operatives of the NDLEA wearing masks inside Mr Kashamu’s bedroom. He(Kashamu) has been locked inside his bathroom since last Saturday around 6:30 am. I have only managed to talk to him through the bathroom’s door’..
He further claimed that the operatives determined persons who can have access to the embattled senator-elect stressing that the entire residence had been condoned.
While faulting the continued occupation of Buruji’s residence, Ajibola said the action of the NDLEA wa
s illegal and a clear breach of the fundamental human rights of his client because, ‘the NDLEA has not produced the purported request for extradition from the United States and a valid warrant of arrest for close a week that Mr Buruji Kashamu’s residence has been fully occupied by hooded armed operatives of the NDLEA”, he argued.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the NDLEA, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju insisted that the anti-narcotic agency’s actions were in order. He said that contrary to the claims of the Kashumu’s counsel, the NDLEA is in possession of valid warrant of arrest and request for extradition.
Another lawyer, Tolu Babaleye, who was apparently in support of the embattled Ijebu-born businessman quoted copiously from the Nigeria’s Extradition Act of 2004 as amended 2014 . He argued that Kashamu, being a Nigerian can only be extradited to a common wealth nation.
United states of American is not part of common wealth countries.
