Extradition: Supreme Court fixes July 30 hearing on Kashamu

The Supreme Court has given July 30 as hearing date in an appeal filed by Senator Buruji Kashamu in which he is praying the apex court to stop the federal government from extraditing him to the United States of America for trial in an alleged drug trafficking offence.

Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) are the key respondents in the appeal filed by Kashamu to stop the execution of two Appeal Court judgments granted against him.

The fresh hearing date has been communicated by the court through issuance of hearing notices to the parties involved in the legal tussle.

The apex court is to review the two judgments delivered in favour of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) by the Lagos division of Court of Appeal on May 4 last year.

Kashamu had in his notice of appeal to Supreme Court complained that the Court of Appeal erred in law by voiding and setting aside the two judgments of the Federal High Court, Abuja which barred the federal government from going ahead with his extradition.

The senator is praying the apex court to set aside the decisions of the Court of Appeal as they affect him.

But the AGF who is acting on behalf of the federal government has joined issues with him with a counter prayer that the Apex Court should uphold the judgments of the Court of Appeal which cleared coast for his extradition.

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