Extradition: Court decides Kashamu’s fate May 27

Kashamu, in said suit, accused the Inspector-General of Police and 11 others of plotting to abduct and forcibly convey him to the US to face trial on alleged drug-related offences.
He alleged that he had uncovered plans by the defendants doing the bidding of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to arrest him during his swearing in as a senator and to transport him to the US in a private plane to face trial before Judge Norgle.
He prayed the court to declare the alleged abduction and extradition plot as an infringement on his fundamental human right to liberty, freedom of association and freedom of movement as protected by sections 35, 40 and 41 of the constitution.
In his application which was moved yesterday, Kashamu’s lawyer, Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN), he said his client had rushed to court to seek protection because “when you see a danger coming, you don’t have to wait until it takes place.”
According to him, the law allowed an applicant to seek the court’s protection when he sees that a danger “has been, is being or is likely to be” unleashed on him, adding that Kashamu fell within the perimeter of “likely to be.”
Besides, Izinyon argued that none of the 12 respondents sued had controverted the alleged plot to abduct his client. However, counsel for the Inspector General of police and the Interpol National Central Bureau, Mr. David Igbodo, said Kashamu failed to show any proof of the alleged move to abduct and extradite him.
Igbodo, who described Kashamu’s action as speculative, urged the court to dismiss the suit, adding  that abduction is a criminal offence, which the police IG, as the foremost law enforcement agent in the country, would never engage in.