Chief Security Officer to the late General Sanni Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha
who was released last Friday by the Court of Appeal relates his 15-year prison
experiences saying he moved from prison to prison and sometimes was placed in
solitary confinement.
The apparently jubilant Al-Mustapha who spoke with
BBC Hausa Service yesterday revealed that his 15 years in prison were a test of
his life...
Last year, a Lagos High Court had sentenced Major Hamza
Al-Mustapha to death by hanging in connection with the death of Kudrat Abiola,
wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election. But on
Friday, the Court of Appeal discharged and acquitted him, making him a free man
once again, after 15 years.
A Lagos High Court had
sentenced you to death by hanging, but this new judgement by the Court of Appeal
has set you free; how do you feel? The Almighty God has shown, through the Court
of Appeal, that there was a grand plan to destroy us. But we handed everything
over to God. In the past 15 years, a lot of things happened, just to show the
world that, no matter what the people think of us, we stand by the
truth.
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