Al-Mustapha who played the role of chief security officer to late General Sani Abacha has spoken up that he will soon reveal what actually killed the late General and the hero of June 12 Moshood Abiola.
It will be recalled that General Sani Abacha died on the 8th of June 1998 while Abiola died almost exactly a month later.
The cause of their death is shrouded in mystery but rumours abound that Abacha died due to food poisoning.
Al-Mustapha who was privy to very sensitive information claims that he’ll reveal the truth in a tell all book which he’ll release soon.
“What killed Abacha is exactly what killed MKO Abiola.” he said
“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,”
He said this at a press conference in Lagos on Monday where he also claimed that he was not in fact kill Kudirat Abiola, the murder which he was convicted and incarcerated for.
He said he endured horrifying torture and that it was a dark period in his life.
According to online news agency thecable.ng, he said of his time in prison,
“I am just recuperating from what I went through. I went through punishment and torture. I was in chains,
“I was not allowed to see a doctor, family and lawyer. There was no light in my cell. I only wore my singlet, which was full of blood. You sighted food and you are denied. I was treated like an animal.”
Al-Mustapha went on to describe Abacha as an honest man was hard done by people he’d offended and it was these people that were behind the stories of stashed loot traced back to Abacha. He also denied allegations that he helped hide Abacha’s loot, “The proper facts about the Abacha loot are not known. Where was the money from? What was it meant for? How was it taken out? Who kept the money there? Abacha was not leaving Nigeria at a later time. His journeys were within Africa because the toes he had stepped upon were bent on removing him,
“In November 1998, I told the government to prosecute me, if I have any bank account than my salary account with the Bank of the North.”
He also debunked claims made by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo that Al-Mustapha was to head a team of 1,000 killer snipers to wreak havoc on the 2015 election on the orders of Goodluck Jonathan, “Firstly, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was not the one that facilitated my release. Rather, my release was facilitated by the content of the case as determined by the Court of Appeal. We were not even supposed to have been arrested in the first place,
“After all, witnesses were induced and contracted to implicate us. At the end of the day, we were subjected to all manner of torture and abuses of our human rights. Today, despite the fact that we were convicted on grounds that were baseless without evidence and even against the submissions of their witnesses, they did the contrary outside what was before the court of law.
“So, when the Appellate Court looked at the matter in totality, we were released based on purely the rule of law. So, anybody saying Jonathan facilitated my release is either one of my persecutors or those who have taken money from them. There are public documents in the public for all to see these facts.
“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.”