Court Rules On Kashamu’s Suit Against AG, NDLEA Nov 18

Kashamu, challenging the alleged move by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to take over his assets.

The trial judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba fixed the date after counsel to the parties argued and adopted their processes.

Kashamu in the suit want the court to grant him an order of perpetual injunction barring the NDLEA and the AGF from taking over his properties, including a 24-flat housing estate at Egbe and several hectares of land on Lekki Peninsular, Lagos, worth over N20bn.

While moving a preliminary objection to the suit on Wednesday, a counsel from the office of the AGF, Oyin Koleosho insisted that the embattled senator’s suit is premature, incompetent and an abuse of court processes and asked the court to dismiss it.

Koleosho also submitted that Kashamu failed to substantiate his claim that the AGF had or was about to take possession of his properties.

“It is our contention that there are no evidences backing up the averments made by the applicant.

“There is nothing to show that the applicant has been prevented from owning property or is about to be divested of the ones he owns.

“It is in view of this that Your Lordship should dismiss the applicant’s suit with substantive cost,” Koleosho said.

He further challenged the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the subject matter of Kashamu’s case.

The lawyer argued that since Kashamu’s case bordered on landed property title, the Federal High Court had no jurisdiction to entertain it.