A former Chief Security Officer to the
late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, Monday, said he
would soon open up on what actually killed his boss and the acclaimed winner of
the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief Bashorun MKO Abiola.
Al-Mustapha said he would unveil the
untold story of how the duo died in his new book, Mustapha’s Memoirs, which,
according to him, is still being worked on.
Al-Mustapha, who addressed journalists
in Lagos yesterday, said one thing killed his boss and the late MKO.
He said:
“For instance, when Chief MKO Abiola
was in prison, many notable Nigerians visited him. They will visit him in the
morning, and when they come back to the Villa in the evening to see Abacha,
they would say a different thing entirely.
“Unknown to these notable Nigerians,
particularly notable Yoruba personalities, who visited Abiola, their visits
were recorded on video. I did the video recording without their knowledge.
“These people would visit Abiola and come
back to tell government a different thing about him.
“These same people would still go and tell
Abiola a different thing about government. They are on video. The agencies of
government have these videos evidence.
“These same people told MKO Abiola never to
accept any compromise or negotiations. They advised him never to come back home
without his mandate. All these things are on video.
“Of all the Yoruba leaders, only Oba Tejuosho
told MKO Abiola the truth: to accept the conditional bail and go home.
“Only Oba Tejuosho told MKO Abiola that
Abacha was his friend, urging him to reconcile with Abacha who was ready for
reconciliation. It was Oba Tejuosho who told MKO Abiola that he still had the
goodwill and would win if he re-contests after Abacha.
“What killed Abacha is what killed MKO
Abiola. But I would reveal that after my court case, still at the Supreme
Court. I would publish a book which has three volumes— the Mustapha’s Memoirs,
which will tell what happened under Abacha and how he died.”
On Abacha loot still being returned to the
country from abroad, 18 years after his death, Al-Mustapha said he was shocked
the first time he heard of Abacha’s loot.
He added that most of what was today known in
the media as Abacha’s loot were mere media campaigns aimed at smearing the late
Sani Abacha’s image by local and international persons he stepped on their toes
while he was Head of State.
Also, Al-Mustapha restated his call for a
public debate, where former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, would come to
backup claims in his infamous 18-page letter that he (Al-Mustapha) was
contracted to head a killer squad of 1,000 snipers for former President, Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan, ahead of the 2015 general elections.
He said
“Nobody contracted me to catch 1,000
mosquitoes under the Jonathan administration, let alone human beings. I am
Al-Mustapha. I have my background away from the propaganda peddled by the likes
of Obasanjo.
“Obasanjo has had his day. I am doing my
investigation and I have discovered so many things as to what made him
(Obasanjo) make such allegation. I have it. I will release it very soon and
that is why I have challenged him to an open debate. “Obasanjo is my senior in
the force; he was a former Military Head of State, but when issues of law and
rights of man are being discussed, definitely equality comes to the fore.
“You cannot put an allegation against your
junior because you are a senior, and you believe the junior would keep quiet.
No, I would not. That would amount to ignorance. I am not ignorant about our
laws.
“I challenge Obasanjo to an open debate so
that he can substantiate his allegations before the whole world; but he is yet
to oblige the challenge.
“Thank God a new government is here today,
where he (Obasanjo) can bring up the issue, requesting it to investigate and,
if there is any contract between Jonathan and I to catch one single mosquito, I
want to say that I am guilty and want to be tried.”
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