Going to US is like Jumping into Fire — Kashamu
Senator-elect and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun
State, Mr. Buruji Kashamu, has denied any past trip to the United States
and ruled out any possibility of ever visiting the country in the
future.
In an interview with Sahara TV, which was monitored by Punch, the PDP chieftain likened such a visit to leaping into fire.
When asked by the interviewer to clarify his alleged involvement in a
United States criminal case as detailed in a popular prison
memoir-turned-TV series by American, Piper Kerman, Kashamu refuted the
claims. He said:
“I am a Nigerian. I am not running away from my fatherland. If anyone
thinks he has a case against me, he should follow due process and we
will take it up from there. I am not under any obligation to go to the
US to answer the same charges after the true judgment of the British
court has exonerated me of the same allegations.
Asking me to take the next available flight to the US so as to clear my
name is like asking me to jump in a fire-may the Almighty rescue me from
it. If the US prosecutor could hide important evidence that later
exonerated me in the UK court, only God knows what they will do in their
country.
I have done a lot of things to clear my name. I spent four years in
detention at the hands of the US authorities to prove my innocence
before I was eventually exonerated.
This was also in the presence of the US prosecutors and other agencies
in various countries, like the Republic of Benin, Nigeria. It was after a
rigorous trial with pictorial and documentary evidence that I was
discharged.”
Kashamu further explained that the case was taken to London and he was
acquitted. He added that his accusers should follow legal process if
they believed their claims held water.
“I have cleared my name and myself in London. If anybody believes that
they have any other case against me, they should come through due
process. I am ready to challenge it. I am ready to face it without any
problem.
I have never in my life put my foot into the United States. I have never
demanded for their sticker. I have been a businessman right from 18
years old. Up till today, I continue doing my business. My last
submission is that I know nothing about what they are saying over
there,” he said.
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