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Kashamu Blasts Keyamo For Accusing Him Of Drug Trafficking
Buruji Kashamu has taken Festus Keyamo to the cleaners for faulting his senatorial nomination over allegations of drug trafficking.
Kashamu, a senator-elect was reacting to statement made by the Lagos lawyer on Nigerian Info Fm that his election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was morally defective.
Keyamo who was a guest on the programme ‘Legal angle explained that Buruji Kashamu would spend more time vindicating himself of drug trafficking allegations than to his legislative duties.
In response to this, Kahamu released a statement yesterday, April 23, through his lawyer, faulting Keyamo’s claims.
The statement made available to Daily Mail, berated Keyamo for displaying “a total ignorance of the incontrovertible facts of the matter,” adding that he passed a faulty judgement on Kashamu without knowledge of the facts.
The statement reads: “Buruji Kashamu is not just merely claiming that he is innocent; two different courts in England, in two different judgments, have found and declared that Buruji Kashamu is innocent of the allegations made against him in the US court:
“The first is the English High Court of Justice (Kings Bench Division) in its judgment of January 2000 in which it said that the US Authorities Actually knew that Kashamu is innocent when they suppressed evidence of an identification parade in which the ring leader of the gang (that allegedly confessed that they had a West African link called “ALAJI) said that Buruji Kashamu was not the man involved with them.
“The English High Court for this reason nullified and set aside the favourable judgment obtained by the U.S authorities against Kashamu on the basis of this suppressed exculpatory evidence.
“The second judgment is that of 10th January 2003 in which District Judge Tim Workman expressly found (after 3 years of trial involving extensive oral evidence from both sides and copious documentary evidence) that the U.S Government had provided false evidence and eventually held that Kashamu was not involved in the crimes alleged and should be discharged.
“The truth, which the Attorney General has himself confirmed in a case pending in the Supreme Court of Nigeria and by letter issued on 25th January 2015, is that the U.S Government has never asked for the extradition of Kashamu at any time up till today 23rd April 2015.”
Kashamu who has always claimed to be innocent of the drug related charges leveled against him recently accused ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo of working with local and foreign security agencies to exile him to the USA over unlawful means
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