Buruji Kashamu Dies of COVID-19 Complications

Former Senator Buruji Kashamu, who represented Ogun East in the 8th National Assembly, has died on Saturday August 8, 2020.

Kashamu died at the First Cardiology Consultants Hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos.

“I have just lost my good friend of forever to ‪#COVID19‬. Until his death, Sen. Buruji Kashamu and I were inseparable. He died today at First Cardiology Consultants, in Lagos. May his gentle soul rest in peace. I pray his family and loved ones the fortitude to bear this heavy loss,” Ben Murray-Bruce, a former senator stated on Twitter.

Kashamu was said to have been on life support machine for weeks after slipping into a coma following COVID-19 complications.

Prior to Kashamu’s death, he was engaged in a long legal battle with the Federal Government to stop his extradition to the United States for drug trafficking charges.

According to a statement signed by Kehinde Akinyemi, spokesman of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president said while the death of the lawmaker was sad, his life and history left “lessons for those of all us on this side of the veil.”

“Senator Buruji Kashamu in his lifetime used the maneuver of law and politics to escape from facing justice on alleged criminal offence in Nigeria and outside Nigeria,” Obasanjo said.

“But no legal, political, cultural, social, or even medical maneuver could stop the cold hand of death when the Creator of all of us decides that the time is up.

“May Allah forgive his sin and accept his soul into Aljanah, and may God grant his family and friends fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.”

The former senator added to the list of prominent Nigerians, who died at First Cardiology Hospital. The same hospital Abba Kyari, late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, died.

Also, Abiola Ajimobi, former governor of Oyo State and Adebayo Osinowo, a lawmaker representing Lagos East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, died in the same hospital.