Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) from taking over the properties of Senator Buruji Kashamu.
Justice Buba, who gave the order while ruling on a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Kashamu, also declared that the AGF and the NDLEA have no authority, vires or justification to interfere with the politician’s right to own property in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world on the basis of the allegation by the United States government or any other person or authority over his alleged complicity in the unlawful importation of prohibited narcotics substances into the United States of America.
It would be recalled that the judge had on June 23 this year barred both the Attorney-General of the Federation and the NDLEA from extraditing Kashamu to the United States of America, to face alleged drug-trafficking offences.
But while that case is still before the Court of Appeal, the embattled senator has filed another suit before the same judge, alleging that the NDLEA and the AGF are about to seize or take over his properties, including a 24-flat housing estate at Egbe and several hectares of land on Lekki Peninsular, Lagos, worth over N20billion.
Kashamu claimed that as opposed to the allegations by the government that he acquired the properties through proceeds of drug-trafficking, the properties were acquired by him through dint of hard work and legitimate business.
The AGF in a preliminary objection had insisted that the embattled senator’s suit is premature, incompetent and an abuse of court processes and asked the court to dismiss it.
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