Court Grants Order To Extradite Al-Qeada Suspect

A federal high court in Abuja, has
granted the request of the federal
government seeking to extradite one
Lawal Babafemi also known as Abdullahi
Ayatollah Mustapha.
Mr Lawal was indicted of conspiracy to
provide support to a foreign terrorist
organization in violation of title 18 of the
United States code and the United
States has requested that he be
extradited out of Nigeria to answer
charges of terrorism proffered against
him.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the
order after he confirmed from the suspect
that he was not going to contest his
extradition to the United States of
America.
In his ruling, Justice Ahmed Mohammed
said since the application was not
contested by the suspect, the court is
satisfied with the request and application
of the attorney general of the federation
as such, it orders that he be extradited to
the United States of America to face the
indictment against him by the U.S..
He also ordered that Mr Babafemi be
surrendered to officials of the United
States of America not later than fifteen
days from when the order was made in
line with the extradition act 2004.
Justice Ahmed also ruled that Mr
Babafemi should remain in the custody of
the department of state services until his
extradition.
The United States of America had on the
26 of July 2013 made a formal request to
Nigeria seeking the extradition of Mr
Lawal Babafemi also known as Abdullahi
Ayatollah Mustapha to answer charges of
providing support to terrorist
organizations against the United States
of America.