The Association of Parliamentary Writers APW has warned the
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA to leave Sen. Buruji Kashamu alone.
The association made this known in a press statement to
newsmen in Abuja yesterday stressing that any attempt by the NDLEA to arrest
Sen. Kashamu or abduct him will be met with dire consequences which the agency
will not find easy.
The statement signed by Barr. Kingsley Eze Frank said it will
be an abuse of due process for the anti-narcotics agency to arrest or abduct
the Senator representing Ogun East senatorial District using whatever guise. It
said considering the fact there is a subsisting Federal High Court judgment
against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA from arresting the
senator and a Senate directive that also restrained the NDLEA from arresting him,
“the agency will be acting against instructions and order of legitimate
institutions of state by arresting or abducting a Senator of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria for whatsoever reason.
The APW describes Sen. Buruji Kashamu as man of peace and a
patriotic Nigerian who has given his best for the growth and development of the country and should not be ridiculed or
sacrificed in the alter of unwarranted politicking. It urged political enemies
of the Senator to wait till 2019 if they so wish to remove him from office
stressing that going through the back door will do them no good.
The association called on the Federal Government to call the
NDLEA to order and to direct the security agencies to take the threat alarm of
the Senator seriously. “the country has been embroiled in a lot of security
issues which has done the image of the country no good. Abducting or
assassinating a serving senator of the Federal Republic who has lots of
dependents will send a very wrong signal to the international community no matter
what those planning such heinous activity are wont to achieve.
It said it will employ all available legal and legitimate
means to drive home its message to the narcotics agency. It said it is
imperative that the NDLEA go about its duties without using the agency as a
platform to witch-hunt innocent Nigerians or engage in unnecessary political
bickerings. “Nigerians are becoming suspicious of the activities of the NDLEA
in recent times especially as regards Sen. Kashamu. We will not relent in
employing legitimate and legal steps towards ensuring that the agency does not
go beyond its bounds” the statement added.
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