A Federal High Court in Lagos state on Tuesday, December 1, granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) from taking over the properties of embattled Senator Buruji Kashamu.
Senator Buruji Kashamu
According to Leadership, Justice Ibrahim Buba, stated that the AGF and NDLEA have no authority to interfere with the Kashamu’s right to own property in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world on the basis of the allegation by the United States government or any other person over his alleged complicity in the unlawful importation of prohibited narcotics substances into the United States of America.
The judge had on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, prevented both the Attorney-General of the Federation and NDLEA from extraditing Kashamu to the United States, to face alleged drug-trafficking charges.
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While the case is still before the Court of Appeal, Kashamu has filed another suit before the same judge, alleging that NDLEA and AGF are about to seize his properties, which includes a 24-flat housing estate at Egbe and several hectares of land on Lekki Peninsula, Lagos state, worth over N20b.
The AGF had insisted that the embattled senator’s suit is premature and an abuse of court processes, in a preliminary objection,urging the court to dismiss it.
Kashamu had been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the winner of the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to represent Ogun East senatorial district at the National Assembly.
But the state National Assembly election petition tribunal nullified the election thereby ordering for a rerun in 110 polling units within Ogun East senatorial district.
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