The Supreme Court, Wednesday, gave June 24 as fresh hearing date in an appeal filed by Senator Buruji Kashamu in which he is praying the Apex Court to stop the federal government from extraditing him to the United States of America (USA) for trial over alleged hard drug trafficking offence.
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) are the respondents in the appeal filed by Kashamu to stop the execution of two Appeal Court judgments granted against him.
The fresh hearing date has been communicated by the court through issuance of hearing notices to the three parties involved in the legal tussle.
The apex court is to determine the validity of the two judgments delivered in favour of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) by the Lagos division of the Court of Appeal on May 4 last year.
Kashamu had in his notice of appeal to Supreme Court complained that the Court of Appeal erred in law by voiding and setting aside the two judgments of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which barred the Federal Government from going ahead with his extradition.
The senator is praying the apex court to set aside the decisions of the Court of Appeal as they affected him.
But the AGF, who is acting on behalf of the Federal Government, has joined issues with him with a counter prayer, that the apex court should uphold the verdict of the Court of Appeal which cleared the coast for his extradition.
He claimed that the appeal court was right in setting aside the judgments of the High Court because they were based on hearsay evidence of Kashamu before the court.
The AGF urged the Supreme Court to allow the judgment of the Court of Appeal to enable the Federal government extradite Kashamu to USA to prove his innocence or otherwise in the hard drug trafficking criminal charge filed against him by the American government since 2015 when he was alleged to have escaped to Nigeria.
