Following the refusal of the operatives of the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to vacate Senator-elect Buruji Kashamu’s Lagos residence despite Tuesday’s court order to do so, the Nigerians In the Diaspora Organization, Paris has petitioned the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. The petition dated May 27, 2015 which was addressed to Mr. Joachim Rücker, President of the Human Rights Council, Said that the Nigeria’s anti-drug agency should stop committing crimes against humanity by denying Mr. Buruji Kashamu his due freedom.
Signed by the group’s Board Chairman, Comrade Williams Odeyemi, the petition which was sent through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis, CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland, urged the NDLEA chairman to obey the court order which asks him to withdraw his men that have been laying siege on the Lekki residence of the PDP chieftain since last Saturday.
The group which has its base in Paris, France urged the president of the UN Human Rights Commission, Mr. Joachim Rücker, to intervene urgently so that the NDLEA would not further ruin the image of Nigeria with its current acts of impunity and disobedient to the rule of law.
According to the statement, the Nigeria’s anti-drug agency would be informing the international community that Nigeria is a lawless country where no one respects the law if its men continue to maintain their ‘illegal’ presence in Kashamu Buruji’s house without presenting a certified arrest warrant as well as a copy of the extradition request from the United States Department of Justice.
The statement reads: “A competent court in Nigeria had yesterday ruled that the men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency stationed at the residence of the senator-elect should vacate the premises in view of the subsisting court order of O. E. A bang J. that parties shall stay actions pending the determination of the matter.
“Our outburst is not about Mr. Buruji Kashamu. Rather, it is about ensuring that the NDLEA, as a very powerful organ of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, obeys the rule of law”
It would be recalled that men of the NDLEA had on Saturday stormed the residence of Prince Buruji Kashamu whom the United States Department of Justice says it is looking for to answer cases of drug trafficking. The Department said that the accused person who had been released and discharged by a Royal Court in England in 2003 was the leader of the Drug Cartel which transported heroine into America for several years up till 1994.
Apart from the Senator-elect who is still battling the NDLEA to ensure that he is not extradited to the US, some other members of the drug Cartel are still serving jail terms in different prisons in America.
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