NOTORIOUS DRUG KINGPIN BURUJI KASHAMU AND HOW HE BECAME A SENATOR WITH FORGED CERTIFICATES(PHOTOS)
Mr.Buruji Kashamu, the drug lord wanted in the United States for heroin trafficking and Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, used forged educational qualifications to contest and win election to the Nigerian Senate in 2015 according to Saharareporters investigations. Mr.Kashamu, known in the social circles as "Eso Jinadu," remains the subject of extradition proceedings in the United States. A range of evidence unearthed through SaharaReporters investigations showed that Mr. Kashamu cooked a series of academic qualifications to mask his sparse education background to con the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept he was qualified to run. In the affidavit in support of personal details, deposed to before the Commissioner of Oaths at the Ogun State High Court Registry, Ijebu-Igbo on December 15 2014 and received by INEC three days later, Mr. Kashamu claimed to possess General Certificate of Education (GCE), obtained in 2006; and an Executive Diploma in