NDLEA vs KASHAMU: Court quashes agency’s warrant of arrest, extradition process...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, quashed the extradition proceedings and arrest warrant procured by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, against Senator-elect for Ogun East senatorial district, Prince Buruji Kashamu.
  Trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, in his ruling on an application argued by Kashamu’s lawyer, Chief Alex Izion, SAN, quashed the extradition proceedings and arrest warrant issued by another judge of the Federal High Court. Kashamu  Kashamu  The judge held that the provisional warrant of arrest was obtained for want of jurisdiction in the sense that the judge’s attention was not drawn to the existing order barring NDLEA and the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF from taking any further steps on the extradition process.  Justice Abang held that the proceedings at the Abuja High Court was  a nullity, as he overruled the preliminary objections raised by the NDLEA and the AGF. Visit vanguard news for more.