US falsified evidence against Kashamu – Lawyer
Lawyer to late
Senator Buruji Kashamu, Mr Ajibola Oluyede has alleged that the narcotics case
against his client in the United States was a case of mistaken identity
following an alleged falsification of evidence.
He said the British
court refused to hand Kashamu over to the US for prosecution in 2003, after an English magistrate, Tim Workman, in
2003 “finally came to the conclusion that the US authorities had falsified
evidence.”
In a tribute to the
deceased titled “PBK the Warrior Prince", Oluyede said;
"The English
Magistrate Tim Workman unconditionally discharged PBK (Prince Buruji Kashamu).
“PBK's successful
legal actions were not legal maneuvers, but the intelligent response of a
warrior to the attempts by his stronger Nigerian adversaries (who were used to
living above the rule of law) to subdue him.
“The US authorities
apparently knew that Buruji Kashamu was not the man referred to as ‘Alaji’ by a
group of students caught with drugs in 1994 at the airport in Chicago. Yet they
decided to hide evidence from the British courts, which indicated that they had
arrested the wrong man in London in 1998 (this was the finding of a panel of
three British Justices who heard PBK’s habeas corpus application in 2000).
“For this reason the
panel of Justices set aside the committal order made for his extradition to the
US from the UK.
“His political adversaries seized various
distortions of his odyssey in the UK to give the false impression that his
wealth was derived from an alleged 1994 offence from which the British courts
had exonerated him.
“Failing to dent his
growing popularity by this attack on his image, PBK’s adversaries embarked upon
a scheme to secure the help of the US authorities to abduct and actually take
him out of circulation.
“PBK fought various
schemes to abduct and ship him off to the US till his last breath.”
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