Col Hamidu Ali, Buhari's Right Hand man was on the military tribunal that sentenced Ogoni activist and poet Ken Saro Wiwa to death in 1996.
In 2003 when Col Ali as the then Secretary General Of the Arewa Consultative Forum was asked if he had any regrets about his role in the execution, he said he had none.
Echoes of the hanging of notable environmental activist and MOSOP leader Mr. Ken Saro Wiwa sounded again at the weekend. The Secretary General of the ACF Col. Ibrahim Hamid Ali (rtd) said he had no regrets over his role in the judicial process that led to Saro Wiwa’s execution.
http://www.legaloil.com/NewsItem.asp?DocumentIDX=1058902890&Category=news

Col. Hamid Ali (rtd), a member of the Abacha Kangaroo tribunal that sentenced the “Ogoni 9″ which included minority rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa to death by hanging, was on Thursday named by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina confirmed the appointment alongside the following:

Babachir David Lawal – Secretary to the Government of the Federation

Abba Kyari – Chief of Staff to the President

Kure Martin Abeshi – Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service

Senator Ita S.J. Enang – SSA to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate)

Hon. Suleiman A. Kawu – SSA to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives)

The new Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Ali was Kaduna’s military governor from 1996 to 1998 under the dictatorial regime of the late General Sani Abacha.

When asked if he had any regret in the role he played in the heartless murder of Ken-Saro Wiwa and the “Ogoni 9″, Col Hamid Ali, who was the Secretary General of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) said he had no regrets over his role in the process that led to Saro Wiwa’s execution.

Col. Ali is a die-hard IBB boy who famously declared he would follow General Ibrahim Babangida to war blindfolded but they then fell out after Babangida annulled the June 12 1993 elections, with him telling his principal that he was wrong, pointing out that Abiola should be sworn-in as president even if he was the devil

Ali was touted to be appointed as the next chairman of the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC).

The Abacha regime set up the Tribunal after falsely accusing Saro-Wiwa and the “Ogoni 8″ of being responsible for the death of four Ogoni elders.

After prolonged human rights abuse, torture and intimidation of Mr. Wiwa’s counsel by the Abacha regime, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists were sentenced to death by hanging.

The Abacha regime swiftly ratified the Tribunal’s verdict and thereafter murdered Saro-Wiwa and the eight activists before the period allowed for an appeal had elapsed. This happened in defiance of calls by the international community, particularly groups like Amnesty International for their lives to be spared.
http://www.opinionriver.com/member-of-ken-saro-wiwa-killer-tribunal-col-hamid-ali-appointed-as-nigerias-customs-boss/

Cc dear lalasticlala

gbam!!! lobatan

He's now a changed person

Freemanan see ur life below me



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Okay.

Canal

congrats ali. i believe baba will use only capable hands. for baba to hand pick you i trust in you

huhu

Apc is a Scam

The media in Nigeria is shameless, if it was even GEJ who made this appointment, they would all scream blue murder, a murderer is Bubu's right hand man.
Even Tinubu who fought these demons in his NADECO Days is now sitting on the same table with them, we're back to the 80s/90s of Northern domination again

Buhari is obviously on a destructive, evil and negative agenda. Everything he has done since May 29th points to the same fact.

If God says yes nobody can say NO!

All of una, if una like make una go hang, e no concern us. PMB will appoint people he deems fit irrespective of what you lots think. After all, nothing he does will please you guys.

DropShot:
All of una, if una like make una go hang, e no concern us. PMB will appoint people he deems fit irrespective of what you lots think. After all, nothing he does will please you guys.

Even if he is a murderer, you are a shameless sycophant

Why don't the op give us the full list of the tribunal members and let's see who will be shamed.

doctokwus:
Why don't the op give us the full list of the tribunal members and let's see who will be shamed.

It's an obvious truth, why don't you go find it out since you're very sure he wasn't the one, Rubbish, you guys are such shameless sycophants that you'll defend the indefensible........blind support

Col Hamid Ali was reputed to be very ruthless back in the Abacha days, I think he was a military governor or so, he and Gen Azazi, I think he might have been on Wiwa's tribunal but not so surr

SenseiX:

It's an obvious truth, why don't you go find it out since you're very sure he wasn't the one, Rubbish, you guys are such shameless sycophants that you'll defend the indefensible........blind support

Do u know your clueless fisherman, appointed justice Auta,the head of the tribunal that tried Wiwa, the chief judge of the high court as far back as in 2011,despite objections from the senate?
Now run along before u are disgraced further.
Besides all these,what even makes Saro-Wiwa innocent of d murder of fellow ogoni chiefs for which he was convicted?I guess because he wrote a book and was an environmental activist made him a law unto himself that could decree who could live or die in Ogoniland!

I am not surprised
cos Buhari has always insisted that Abacha never stole money, so na him former padis for Abacha regime Buhari dey bring come government

doctokwus:

Do u know your clueless fisherman, appointed justice Auta,the head of the tribunal that tried Wiwa, the chief judge of the high court as far back as in 2011,despite objections from the senate?
Now run along before u are disgraced further.
Besides all these,what even makes Saro-Wiwa innocent of d murder of fellow ogoni chiefs for which he was convicted?I guess because he wrote a book and was an environmental activist made him a law unto himself that could decree who could live or die in Ogoniland!

Since when did GEJ become the standard for Buhari, I thought you rancid dolts said he was clueless.
GEJ appointed Justice Auta as the Chief Judge on the recommendation of the NJC, Buhari instead appoints his right hand man who incidentally was a tool of Nigeria's worst dictator and you shamelessly defend him, How callous can you be......
You then go along to justify Ken Saro Wiwa's execution, sure why don't you go ahead and beautify Abacha already.
Little wonder your illiterate master says Abacha never stole a dime, Bunch of cretins ruled by an idio.t.

Good morning, Niger Deltans

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Leopards Now Sheeps

He was in a military tribunal- and so what You guys should keep finding faults while real Nigerians keep making progress.

During the outbreak of violence
against the Igbo people in Northern
and Central Nigeria in 1966, Abba
Kyari assisted Igbo soldiers in
escaping from Kaduna, including
Major Samuel Ogbemudia, who later
was appointed Governor of Mid-West
State in September 1967 following
the state's liberation from
secessionist Biafran forces.

They would rather ignore this and dwell on the other. Such anancephalous hypocritical scoundrels.

Buhari would have appointed Abacha if he was alive, why? Because of his no-nonsense disposition.

Rilwayne001:

You never see anything

The elders in the Niger Delta should cover their faces in shame as things unfold in this country! They will regret why they sold Biafra out to the federal troops! My sympathy!!!

doctokwus:
Why don't the op give us the full list of the tribunal members and let's see who will be shamed.

You should be educated enough to do that! I am sure you don't expect to be sppon-fed here Go to google and do the research!!!

Lalasticlala

Sentiments aside, Saro-Wiwa was guilty of murdering the four Ogoni chiefs. We all seem to forget that there were victims of Saro-Wiwa's actions that cried out for justice. He tried to do the right thing,but,wrongly.

bokohalal:
Sentiments aside, Saro-Wiwa was guilty of murdering the four Ogoni chiefs. We all seem to forget that there were victims of Saro-Wiwa's actions that cried out for justice. He tried to do the right thing,but,wrongly.

No evidence points to that