The Federal High Court in Lagos state on Tuesday, December 1, granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the attorney general of the federation and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) from taking over the properties of the embattled Senator Buruji Kashamu.
Senator Buruji Kashamu
The judge had on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, prevented both the attorney general and the NDLEA from extraditing Kashamu to the United States to face alleged drug-trafficking charges.
While the case is still before the Court of Appeal, Kashamu has filed another suit before the same judge, alleging that the NDLEA and the attorney general are about to seize his properties, which includes a 24-flat housing estate at Egbe and several hectares of land on Lekki Peninsula, Lagos state, worth over N20bn.
The attorney general had insisted that the embattled senator’s suit is premature and an abuse of court processes in a preliminary objection,urging the court to dismiss it.
Meanwhile, the appeal filed by Senator Buruji Kashamu at the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, Oyo state, contesting the nullification of his election in the March 28 senatorial poll suffered a setback on Tuesday, November 24.
Kashamu had been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the winner of the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to represent Ogun East senatorial district at the National Assembly.
But the state National Assembly election petition tribunal nullified the election thereby ordering a rerun in 110 polling units within Ogun East senatorial district.
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