hehehehe..wahala for this man oooo....The U.S. Justice Department has said the embattled former Minister of
State for Defence, Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro, could be extradited to the
country to stand trial as long as the Federal Government followed due
process.
The erstwhile minister had last week, dared the federal government to
extradite him from the U.S, his current place of residence, following
the invasion of his home in Lagos by operatives of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, who made away with cars and other
valuables.
But Peter Carr, an official at the United States Department of
Justice, DOJ, said the former minister’s extradition from the U.S. was
possible provided the Federal Government did the needful.
The official responding to an email sent by online portal,
SaharaReporters, on the issue at the weekend, said: ‘’Within (existing)
statutory and treaty framework, US is generally to extradite its
citizens, assuming that the requirements of the treaty are met. The fact
of dual nationality with Nigeria would be irrelevant in this context.’’
Quoting Article 8 of the extradition treaty, Carr said it ‘’specifies
that extraditions will comply with the laws of the requested country,
i.e. the place where the fugitive is found.’’
Also speaking on the issue, an international legal expert in the
U.S., Roger Clark, said ‘’the United States has no problem extraditing
its nationals, provided there is a treaty.’’
Clark, an expert on international criminal law and a professor at
Rutgers University School of Law in the United States, noted that some
countries in Western Europe were reluctant to extradite their own
citizens but noted that common law countries didn’t usually have a
problem, assuming legal processes were followed.
According to him, common law countries, including Nigeria, will often
fall under the same treaty that outlines reciprocal and mutually agreed
on rules for extraditing their nationals.
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