Kashamu’s last birthday, 10 things you need to know about him

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Senator Buruji Kashamu died yesterday, August 8, 2020 in Lagos from the deadly CORONA VIRUS (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Buruji was loved by his own at Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State as his country home were filled with sympathizers on hearing his death on Saturday.

These are the 10 things you have to know about late Senator Buruji Kashamu:

BURUJI KASHAMU: 10 Things You Should Know About The Late Ogun Senator.

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Senator Buruji Kashamu died on Saturday due to COVID-19 complications at a Lagos hospital.
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Below are some things you should know about the late senator:
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1. Kashamu represented Ogun East senatorial district from 2015 to 2019.
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2. Kashamu was the Ogun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 election.
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3. He was indicted for conspiracy to import and distribute heroin in1998 by a grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois, US.

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4. On December 18, 1998, the UK’s Metropolitan Police arrested Kashamu, who was travelling with a Benin passport.
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5. He returned to Nigeria in 2003 from Britain after a British court refused a US extradition request over uncertainty about Kashamu’s identity.
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6. Kashamu had told the court that he was not the leader of the drug-smuggling conspiracy but his brother, Adewale Kashamu, who he closely resembles.
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7. 1n 2015, there was a stand-off at his residence after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency attempted to arrest him for extradition to the US.

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8. A federal high court in Abuja in May 2020, barred the FG from extraditing him.
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9. He sued former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, for libel for stating that Kashamu was a fugitive from US justice.
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10. Kashamu was the founder of Western Lotto Limited, one of Nigeria’s lottery operators.

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WATCH BURUJI’S LAST BIRTHDAY:

Credit:  Ola Muritala

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