African Civil Liberty Committee on Rendition, ACLCR, has described alleged plans by the United States of America, USA, to abduct Prince Kashamu Buruji to face American law courts as a threat to Nigeria’s sovereignty. ACLCR is a Civil Society Organization (CSO). In a statement signed by its Country Director, Mr. Sunday Philips, yesterday in Abuja, ACLCR stated the attempt was a direct affront to the Nigerian judiciary system, stating that the Nigerian judiciary has enough mechanism to take care of all infringement committed on or outside Nigerian shores and should be seen in its autonomous power. Philip noted that ACLCR's opposition to the abduction attempt should not be seen as an obstruction of justice but a move to ensure that international conventions are respected, describing the plan as rendition. It said: “They are working on extraordinary rendition or irregular rendition, which our earlier source described as ‘government sponsored kidnapping and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another’. Saying that it is ironic that Kashamu has summarily been discharged by three British courts on same issue, Philip noted further that an American judge, Charles R Norgle, District Judge of United States District Court for the Northern District Illinois, Eastern Division on July 15, 2010 ruled that Kashamu is not a fugitive. Prior to this, a court in England presided over by district Judge Tim Workman on January 10, 2003 declared in his judgment (after 3 years of diligent trial) that he found the man not culpable. the United States authorities have not appealed this judgment and no steps have been taken further by the United States until now that they are being instigated by some elements in Nigeria.
