WHO REALLY KILLED KUDIRAT ABIOLA?...REJOINDER BY MINISTRY OF JUSTICE LAGOS STATE Introduction: The Lagos State Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not as a matter of practice engage in public debates over cases in which it is a party and even less so in criminal prosecutions, where it undertakes the sacred constitutional duty of ensuring the effective prosecution of criminal conduct in the name of the People of the State. However in the past few weeks, the elaborate misleading comments and campaign of falsehood orchestrated by Dr. Fasheun for and on behalf of Major Al-Mustapha and Mr. Lateef Shofolahan regarding their complicity in the killing of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola necessitate in our view, a response, not only to set the facts straight but more importantly to demonstrate that Dr. Fasheun’s attacks on the character and integrity of the prosecutors who worked on the case is unfounded, in bad faith, and obviously laden with sinister motives. The MoJ also intends to demonstrate why it was and remains certain that Major Al-Mustapha and his confederates were responsible for procuring, the murder and attempted murders they were charged with. This rejoinder is therefore offered to the public at this time particularly when there is no on-going judicial proceedings. Factual background: It is public knowledge that several heinous crimes were committed in Lagos State during the regime of Late Gen. Sanni Abacha. These include amongst others the killing of Alhaja Kudirat Abi ola ( wife of Late MKO Abiola the acclaimed winner of 1993 presidential election); the attempted murder of Mr. Alex Ibru (the publisher of The Guardian Newspapers) and Pa Abraham Adesanya ( then leader of the Afenifere) (both persons now deceased). All These offences were perpetrated at various times between 1995 and 1998. By 1998, the law enforcement agencies had arrested certain individuals for one or all of the offences. They included Major Al-mustapha (CSO to Gen Sanni Abacha), Sgt. Barnabas Jabila (a.ka. Sgt. Rogers), Mohammed Abdul Inkiya (a.k.a Katako and the driver attached to Mohammed Abacha, son of Gen. Sanni Abacha); and Col. J.B. Yakubu, then a unit Commander in Lagos State and who later became the Military Administrator of Zamafara State, Lati Sofolahan, (an aide to Chief MKO Abiola), James Danbaba ( Commissioner of Police at the time the offences were committed). Central to all the cases was Major Al-Mustapha whose role, from the evidence, was that he gave instructions to murder all three persons. The cases were investigated by the police, and a Special Investigation Panel(SIP) comprising police and State Security officials. In November 1999, after completion of investigations, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu filed charges on behalf of the police in the Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court, Lagos being the venue of the alleged crimes. It was at this stage that the Lagos State Ministry of Justice received the files complete with all the statements of the accused persons and prosecution witnesses. No other statements were made after the files were handed over to the Lagos State Ministry Of Justice. [B1] Dr. Fredrick Fasheun’s contrivance of “Astounding Facts “ Dr. Fredrick Fasheun, who for reasons only he can explain, had been campaigning for the release of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha. In seeking to refute criticisms of his campaign, he sponsored an advertorial on Pages 24 and 25 of the Sunday edition of Guardian Newspapers of 28th July, 2013, titled: Al-Mustapha: Beyond the prejudice and the Politics. Dr. Fasheun’s advertorial cynically x-rayed the judgment of the Trial Judge, Honourable Justice Mojisola Dada of High Court of Lagos State attacking her personality and integrity and imputing motives to a judge who has always been known for fairness, forthrightness and firmness. . Also in one of the sub-heads of the advertorial is a caption “Astounding Facts about Al-Mustapha Trial” wherein Dr. Fasheun made the following absolutely false assertions purportedly based on the testimonies of Rogers and Katako at the trial Court. He claimed that Rogers under cross-examination confessed that: He had told the falsehood based on the Lagos State Government (represented by Professor Yemi Osinbajo then the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice) and the Federal Government (represented by Chief Bola Ige then the Attorney General and Minister of Justice) on condition that he would be rewarded.... Also that: Sgt. Rogers was indeed in Abuja on the day Alhja Kudirat Abiola was killed; Katako could not tell the Court brand of the car he drove that took the killers to the scene of the crime; Katako was in Azare in Bauchi State on the date the murder was committed; Regarding the Alleged Lagos State Government’s Gift to Rogers No where in the entire transcript of the evidence at the trial did Rogers ever say that the Lagos State Attorney-General or any of his officers ever told him to lie for the promise of any reward. Indeed, the transcript of the evidence showed different facts. In the course of trial Sgt. Rogers was recorded to have said that: The handset was given to us by the Attorney General of Lagos State. The SSS would not do that. They saw us with the telephone. They were aware. The telephone line was MTN but I can’t remember the number. His own number was an Econet Line. He came with the line Perhaps the most shocking lie of Dr. Fredrick Fasheun is that: "Katako later broke down in court, saying he lied based on instruction from the Lagos State Government (represented by Professor Yemi Osinbajo then the Attorney general and Commissioner for Justice) and federal Government (represented by Chief Bola Ige then the Attorney general of the Federation and Minister of Justice) in exchange for a house in Jos and promises that his family would be catered for". Again, there is no where in the records of the Court where Katako ever said that the then A.G. of Lagos State or the then Federal A.G. told him to lie in exchange for a house in Jos. This wildly irresponsible statement was italicized by Dr. Fasheun to give the false impression that it was a quote from the trial court’s record. Secondly, it is important to note that the whole of point of these allegations was to discredit the confessional statement made by the Prosecution witness especially to give impression that they were induced by gifts or offers of gifts to give false evidence. It is however not particularly difficult to see through the cheap mischief of the allegations. It is noteworthy that the confessional statements of Sgt. Rogers and Katako were made on 18th September, 1999 some months before the case files ever came to the knowledge of Lagos State Ministry of Justice. But what is “astounding” about the alleged telephone gift is that as at 1999 when the witnesses made the statements, there were no GSM phones in Nigeria!! As a matter of fact, MTN only became operational in Nigeria in August 2001!! So except for mischief, why would a Dr. Fasheun perpetrate the silly lie of the accused person who suggested that an MTN phone line which could only have come in 2001 would have influenced the writing of a confession in 1999 or his testimony given on January 1Ith 2000? It is crucial to emphasize that St. Rogers (Barnabas Jabila) gave his oral evidence in court for the first time on Jan 11th 2000. In his evidence he explained in graphic detail not just the Alex Ibru attack but the assassination of Kudirat and the attempt on the life of Abraham Adesanya. He also mentioned the names of several other prominent Nigerians involved in the pro-democracy struggle who had been marked for assassination including Pat Utomi and Bola Ige himself! Assuming the ridiculous story of an MTN phone is true, God has made it factually impossible for a phone gift which could only have been given in 2001 to influence his testimony in 2000 Regarding the Alleged Federal Government’s Gift to Rogers Secondly, except for clearly mischievious reasons why would Dr. Fasheun not know that Chief Bola Ige, SAN (of blessed memory) was not the Attorney General of the Federation in 1999? For record purposes, Chief Bola Ige SAN, became the Attorney General on 3rd January, 2000 (and was assassinated on 23rd December, 2001). If Dr. Fasheun suggests that Mohammed Abdul Inkiya a.k.a. Katako or Sgt. Rogers wrote their voluntary statements on 19th September, 1999 because the Attorney General of the Federation (Chief Bola Ige SAN who had not then been appointed gave them N100,000.00, then, it is crystal clear that his falsehood is not an error but sheer mischief. Mr. Kanu Agabi, SAN was the Attorney General from 1999 – January 2000. On Sergeant Rogers’ Presence in Lagos and Involvement in the Killing of Kudirat AbiolaOn the suggestion of the defence counsel to Sgt. Rogers that he was in Abuja on 4th June, 1996 and not in Lagos, he answered thus: On 4th June, 1996, no, I was not physically in Abuja. I was here in Lagos... I also heard the news on that day. I was in Lagos. Yes sir, I heard the news that the assassination of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. On his involvement in the commission of the offence, the defence counsel asked him on the type of ammunition used in shooting Alhaja Kudirat by confronting him with the alleged statement of Mohammed katako. The Trial Judge recorded his saying finally under cross-examination thus: I may not remember everything In Exhibit A2, I stated that the ammunition used was 9mm. I will be surprised if the SIP said it is a 5.6mm. Yes sir, I said we drove a Peugeot 504 in Exhibit A2. I will be surprised if Katako said it was a Cherokee jeep we drove that day. One therefore wonders how Dr. Fasheun would want to justify his sponsored advertorial if not persecution, perversion and mockery of the judicial system! Regarding the Alleged Inability of Mohammed Katako to identify the Vehicle Used for the Killing Quite revealing just like Sgt. Rogers’ evidence, Mohammed Katako was called as PW3. He narrated how the assassination was carried out under cross-examination by the counsel to Al-mustapha. These were his responses as recorded by the Trial Judge: As at that 1996, I met the 3rd defendant now the 2nd defendant (Lati Shofolahan) at the National Theatre but I was not working with him... The shooting took place after the toll gate.... I don’t know if I wrote that I drove a Grand Cherokee Jeep that day of the incident. It is correct that on that day, I drove a 504 Saloon car... No it was not Grand Cherokee Jeep we rode on the date of the incident. It was a day before the day of the incident that we used a Grand Cherokee Jeep. The Grand Cherokee Jeep was borrowed by Rogers the day before the incidence after we returned home. This was the evidence of Katako in the record of the court. How then did Dr. Fasheun reach the conclusion that Katako, the driver “who allegedly drove the vehicle that took the killers could not tell the court the brand of vehicle he drove”. Alleged Katako’s Confusion and presence in Azare, Bauchi for his Wedding The same Katako was quoted by Dr. Fasehun denying his earlier statement and stated that he was in Azare in Bauchi State for his first marriage. The Trial Judge who listened to the cross-examination of Sgt. Rogers as well as that of Katako was able to see through the consistency in common intention and purpose between and among accused persons. Her ladyship had this to say on Katako’s evidence : However, the witness never denied all that he had stated relating to the role he played on the day and at the time Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was assassinated. Regarding the issue of Mohammed Katako’s alleged wedding in Azare, Bauchi State on the 4th June, 1996, the Trial Judge then found as follows that: A person may be in Lagos in the morning and still make it to Azare the same day, afterall, Bauchi State is barely 5 hours away. PW3 has not said he was not in Lagos that day at all. He has not denied that he drove PW2 on 4th June 1996 when the latter shot and killed Kudirat Abiola. The learned Trial Judge then noted that Dr. Ore Falomo’s testimony as PW1 put the time of the assassination at about 8.30am giving PW3 enough time to get to Bauchi State. Neither Al-mustapha nor Lati Shofolahan contested these findings on appeal. Perhaps, Dr. Fasheun is unaware that the same Katako had said in his statement made on 19th September, 1999 confessing to other killings and attempted killings including that of Pa Abraham Adesanya that: “Aminu told Rogers that they should go back and wait there until the Mercedes owner leaves the premises. After a while, the Mercedes owner came and drove away. They follow the Mercedes 200 or 230. As the vehicle runs....and hearing gun shots. When we returned home I heard that Adesanya Abraham was shot. I then said that this firing must be the handwork of Rogers. After two days, they went back to Abuja. I was never told the nature of the job I was going to do, but after their discussions, Alhaji Mohammed my master will then say you (me) to follow Rogers and others to Lagos”. In the same vein, Mohammed Rabo Lawal also volunteered a statement on 12th October, 1999 when he said: James Danbaba took us that evening to the Lagos Garrison Commander’s House Brig. Gen. Bamaiyi. He introduced us to him as men on surveillance duties from Abuja. We went to the commissioner’s House and later left to our place of abode. The next day, we reported to the commissioner of police residence and to him in person. He told myself and Barnabas Jabila that he phone the CSO Major Al-mustapha and he told him that we should intensify our surveillance and monitor the activities of Mr. Alex Ibru who the commissioner said reside within Ikoyi area. We tried to trace Mr. Alex Ibru’s house through the Commissioner of Police Mr. James Danbaba who said he doesn’t know. It was later we were able to find out that he was on office at the Federal Palace Hotel. We went and asked from the Artifact sellers if he was around as we were asking his car sped-by so the Artifact sellers pointed at him. Barnabas Jabila then followed him behind while myself and Samaila Shuaibu diverted to follow through Bonny Camp fly-over. Myself and Samaila Shuaibu later met Barnabas Jabila in Dodan-Barrack where he told us that as he was following the car carrying Mr. Alex Ibru up to the NNPC fly-over, instead of the car going straight ahead it diverted to go under the fly-over as such he fired at it. Barnabas Jabila confirmed this version of events in his oral testimony in court in the Alex Ibru attempted murder case. Prosecution Witnesses’ Statements Made as at 1999 Dr. Fasheun’s masterly attempt to give the impression that his campaign to wash Major Al-mustapha clean of the gross crime with which he and others were charged is truthful and based on altruistic motives- falls flat in the face of actual statements of many of the accused persons and or prosecution witnesses made in 1999. The statements are reproduced below. Sgt Rogers’ Statements as at 29th September, 1999 As earlier stated, the investigation conducted by the police revealed the commission of various crimes by the accused persons. Of relevance is Sgt. Rogers’ statement which was voluntarily made in his own hand writing and duly signed after being cautioned. As at 27th May, 1999 he was questioned on his involvement in the alleged murder and attempted murders of Kudirat Abiola, Alex Ibru, Alfred Rewane and Pa Abraham Adesanya. He denied any knowledge of the murders or attempted murders. Thereafter, Mohammed Katako confessed on 19th September, 1999 and upon being shown Katako’s confessional statement, Sgt. Rogers perhaps realizing that that was the end of the road on 29th September, 1999 wrote thus: Further to my statement which I made to the police sometimes in May, 1999 which we denied all the alleged allegations against us. I wish to now make a detailed statements concerning KUDIRAT ABIOLA on the 4th of June 96. Major Mustapha ordered that the woman must be eliminated at all cost, so before then we met Major Mustapha informant in Abiola’s House by name Alhaji Lati, who use to tell us the itinery of the woman. On the 4th June 1996, we followed her to Abiola’s house, in the morning we followed her there immediately we reach there, she came out of Abiola crescent with white Mercedes Benz beast in which they are four in number, so we trailed her to Allen Avenue round-about where she dropped one small girl that was in the car with her. Then we followed her again to Secretariat Alausa Ikeja, the to express road on her way to Lagos, then we came closer and level up with her, then I fired at the car several shots. Sgt. Rogers continued in his statement of 29th September, 1999 as follows: Then we drove off which later the shots killed her. I used UZI, SMG and 9mm rounds with silencer. We use Peugeot 504 saloon car dark blue, Major Ado’s car Initially we are 5 (five) who went for the operation who are Samaila Shuaibu, Barnabas Jabila, Sani Garba, Sukwanga Bello, Mohammed Katako who went for the operation. But on the 4/6/96 it was only myself and Mohammed Katako that went because the others listed above and Mohammed Aminu said they are tired and also they are girls which we don’t want the girls to understand what we are doing because the firearm are with them and also we went out surveillance the previous night. It was Katako who drove the car. Major Mustapha is the one that gave us the weapon and ammunition. After the operation he gave us N50,000 which Sukwanga Bello was the one that travelled to Abuja to collect for us which we share among ourselves equally because the woman died. Katako’s Statements as at 29th September, 1999 This piece would not be complete without reproducing the confessional statement of Mohammed Katako which was shown to Sgt. Rogers. Katako in his own hand-writing duly signed after he was cautioned where he said: They (Rogers and other) once told me that they wanted to give me something, but that my master told them that they should not bother and am his boy. After they had left for some days, I also went to Abuja. We came to Lagos together in a private aircraft at night. The owner was one DANILO. We went to Lati’s house in the morning and Lati took us to one house. Abiola’s house. That day, we used a Peugeot car with Reg. No CVU and another 504. I did not know where they got these vehicles....In the morning of the following day, Rogers said that we should drive out. We then went to Ikeja. Lati had already told them the type of vehicle they were watching out for. He said we should follow that vehicle, it was a Mercedes benz and there were three or four people inside the car. As we approached Maryland junction, Rogers started firing at the Mercedes and continued firing until we drove pass the car (Mercedes). After we returned home, I heard that Kudirat ABIOLA was the one shot at the scene. I then knew she (Kudirat ABIOLA) was the one killed. This is all I know. Mohammed Abacha’s Statement in 1999 On the 6th of October 1999, Mohammed Abacha under interrogation by the SIP, wrote and duly signed the following statement after he was cautioned: I have two civilian bodyguard drivers. In addition to Mohammed Katako were Saleh and Farouk...I was sitting in Major Mustapha’s office when Sgt. Rogers and a couple of Bodyguards were asked to come into the office I was in his office purely on a visit which I usually do. The boys and Sgt. Rogers were asked to come into the office, then, Major Mustapha told Rogers that he was sending them on an assignment. He them asked Rogers to bring a bag from a corner of his office which after it was opened by Rogers contained about two or more machine guns. Major Mustapha then whispered to Rogers I believe the details of the assignment before they were all asked to go. Mohammed Abacha did not stop at that. He went further to write in that statement thus: Mohammed Katako came at about 12 midnight and we went to Major Ado’s house in the city. As we got there he wasn’t around. Mohammed located him from the neighbourhood. We invited me into his home we sat down and got talking. The basic theme of the discussion, was that there were a lot of questions being asked about the killing of Kudirat, the live attempts on Alex Ibru and Mr. Abraham Adesanya. During the talks he expressed a lot of fear about the issues and that something should be done about it. That he believe that since the boys are around they should immediately be resettled somewhere before additional measures should be taken. It was then resolved that Mohammed and Aminu should be taken care first before the others were located. It was suggested that they be given at least ten thousand dollars or so to take care of them for sometime before the additional measures could be put in place..... Back to major Ado discussion, it was then we agreed that the other boys should be looked for and spoken to leave the country. Major Ado had to go back to Lagos for his duties. We then asked Mohammed Katako to locate this others and ask them to come to Kano and see me....I instructed my Accountant Ibrahim Amin to source ten thousand dollars each for both of them which he confirmed to me he had given and they had collected from him. In all of these statements of Sgt. Rogers, Katako and Mohammed Abacha between September and October, 1999, over ten years before the witnesses gave their latest oral testimonies in court, the facts have always pointed at Al-Mustapha as the brain box, procurer and facilitator of the alleged murder and attempted murders that were going on at that time. Collusion and Interference with Prosecution Witness by the Defence Although, Dr. Fasheun was eager to give the impression that the prosecution induced its witnesses, the categorical findings of the trial Judge is that it was the defence that colluded with the prosecution witness. This finding was not faulted by the Court of Appeal in its judgment. Her Ladyship said: I must refer to my earlier comment about learned counsel for the defendant’s suggestions to these witnesses under cross-examination- particularly PW3 under consideration and the evidence that he had contact with this particular witness and conversed with him in the course of the trial of this case when he said “you told me you were fasting or that you had finished fasting”which in my view is proof of collusion with the prosecution witness. This finding of the trial judge is crucial to understanding the possible reasons why after ten years a witness attempts what is even at best a half- hearted sommersault since they did not deny the core of their evidence that they actually participated in the murders and attempted murders. Delay as a Tool in the hands of Defence Dr. Fasheun in his advertorial, suggests that his client Major Al-mustapha and others had been oppressed by the long delay in concluding the prosecution of the cases in which they were involved. However, anyone reasonably familiar with the cases in which Major Al-mustapha was a central figure- namely: State v Ishaya Bamaiyi & Others, Mohammed Abacha v The State & Others, and The State v Hamza Al-mustapha will recollect that the clear strategy of the accused persons was to prevent or delay the trial for as long as possible, with a view to benefitting from a change in the State commitment to prosecute the cases. This strategy was pursed by the accused persons faithfully for years. In all those cases, the Nigerian public and the legal community were treated to some of the most bizarre ploys to delay the trials. An examination of the proceedings in State v Ishaya Bamaiyi, Al-mustapha & Others will show extra-ordinary frequency of adjournments at the instance of the defence. Indeed between November 20th, 1999 and 20th March, 2002, there were over 49 adjournment at the instance of the defence. Besides, the accused persons aside from legitimate constitutional challenges to jurisdiction, to the charge which went on appeal and in which they repeatedly sought a stay of proceedings also filed several purely dilatory applications- such as a challenge against the Judge writing his record on loose sheet as opposed to “a book”! In 2002, after the Judge had dismissed a dilatory application and excoriated counsel for seeking to move a similar application knowing the fate of the previous one, the accused persons including Major Al-mustapha as if on cue began to shout that the Judge had received a bribe of $10,000,000.00 (ten million US Dollars) from their agent. They went as far as saying that their said agent had met with the Judge in front of Ikoyi Club. This allegation was repeated by one of Counsel to the accused person, Mr. Mike Okoye at a press reception in his home. The MoJ filed contempt proceedings against Mike Okoye who subsequently admitted in open court before Hon. Justice Rhodes Vivour (as he then was) that himself and his client had deliberately concocted the falsehood. Hon. Justice Rhodes Vivour ordered their Counsel to publish a written admission and apology to Hon. Justice Ade-Alabi in five national dailies and referred the matter as a disciplinary complaint to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Still determined to frustrate the trial before Hon. Justice Ade-Alabi, the accused persons then petitioned the Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) on the concocted complaint of receiving a bribe. The panel set up by the NJC in 2002 to investigate the allegation of bribery against the trial Judge included Hon. Justice B.O. Babalakin, JSC (Rtd), Amb. ML. Sambo (Walin Zazzau) and TJ Onomigbo Okpoko, SAN. In its report attached to the NJC’s letter to the accused persons dated 8th August, 2002, it was found that the allegation contained in the petition was baseless and unfounded. The NJC Panel heard all the parties and came to the conclusion as follows inter alia at page 35: This panel entertains no doubt whatsoever that the petition is baseless and full of lies as far as allegations of corruption are concerned. It is conclusive that this allegation is mala fide and ill motivated and the true purpose of it is to prevent petitioners from being tried in Lagos. The National Judicial Council (NJC) continued on Page 36 and stated as follows:- “A situation where an accused person deliberately makes allegation designed to frustrate his continued trial by a particular judge against whom no act of bias or misconduct has been established is one that the judicial system must resist. A failure to resist such manoeuvre will in the panel’s view in fact bring the administration of justice into disrepute as all an accused person needs to do to frustrate his trial is to make wild and unfounded allegations which the petitioner knows to be unfounded” On Page 37 the NJC also stated as follows “In fact the complaints were made mala fide to stall the trial and to bring the administration of Justice in the country into disrepute” Not surprisingly, the accused persons continued in the ploy to ensure that the trial would not go on before Hon. Justice Ade-Alabi and to force the case to begin de novo. In 2004, the accused persons asked the Judge to disqualify himself on the ground that having been accused by them of corruption, and having faced the NJC Panel (which absolved the Judge) he would be biased against them. The Judge acceded, and withdrew from the case. As of 2002 when the accusation was made, seven prosecution witnesses had testified, the prosecution was to close its case. Five years of proceedings went down the drain on an account of an orchestrated plan by the accused persons. Challenges of Prosecuting State Sponsored terrorism Throughout history, the post-regime prosecution of powerful, and influential persons who had perpetrated heinous crimes against individuals, perceived enemies of the regime, including torture, illegal detentions, state-sponsored terror, and assassinations such as took place under the Abacha regime, always throws up the same prosecutorial challenges. Usually as was the case here, the actual killings, maimings, torture and other such acts are carried out by the minions or ordinary foot soldiers such as Barnabas Jabila. The instructions come from enforcers such as Major Al-Mustapha, either as a direct instruction from the major political head or their own interpretation of either the body language or the requirements for the survival of the regime they serve. In most cases, it is only where the foot-soldiers chose to confess such as happened in these cases is anything ever heard of how the offences were perpetrated. When such confessions are made, it is standard practice to put such potential prosecution witnesses under a witness protection programme to ensure that the extremely powerful, wealthy and influential former bosses and the strong interests they represented and still represent are not able to reach them either to intimidate or otherwise influence them. That by itself is a huge challenge, the accused persons know that once they can reach the witnesses their chances of acquittal are higher than even engaging the most skillful counsel depending on how serious the offence is. This is what happened in these cases. Conclusion What Dr. Fasheun and his fellow travellers on this road of deceit would like the Nigerian public, and the world, to believe , is that Barnabas Jabila (a trained marksman in the Nigerian Army, trained in Libya and North Korea as a member of the Strike Force) , Mohammed Katako, Mr. Mohammed Abacha (son of General Sanni Abacha), Col. Jibrin Yakubu ( A one time Military Administrator) and Mohammed Rabo Lawal all lied against themselves and claimed to have been involved in murders or attempted murders that they knew absolutely nothing about! to implicate a Major in the Nigerian Army Al-Mustapha! Nothing could be more absurd. While there may be technical loopholes that the defence may exploit to escape justice deserved for spilling innocent blood, let no one seek to bestow moral garments on the perpetrators of perhaps q the most despicable assaults ever undertaken by functionaries of the Nigerian State against the citizenry.
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