Kashamu declares Two to Five People will Die before he is Extradited

Senator Buruji Kashamu who represents Ogun East in the upper legislative chamber has promised that “three, four or five people will die” before he is extradited to the United States to face drug related charges.

Kashamu has been accused of being the ring leader of a gang which transport’s heroin in Chicago in the 1990s a claim the lawmaker has however denied stating his dead brother was the culprit and not him.

Justices Okon Abang and Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos; in separate judgments in May and June of 2015, had issued orders barring the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) from arresting Kashamu.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the High Court in Abuja had also dismissed an NDLEA application seeking Kashamu’s arrest for extradition.

Last week, a U.S court however ruled that Kashamu has a case to answer with respect to drug offences committed in the ’90s.

U.S investigators say Kashamu led a heroin trafficking ring which inspired the hit TV show “Orange is the New Black.”
The Nigerian lawmaker has denied his involvement in drug trafficking, saying his late brother, Adewale Kashamu, who bears close resemblance to him, was the culprit.

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

“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,” he said.

“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.

“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.

“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 urged President Muhammadu Buhari to protect him, blaming former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his predicament.

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

“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?

“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.”