Paperwhite:
What about the countless assassinations including that of Kudirat Abiola(Lagos), Suliat Adedeji(Ibadan) etc & attempted assassination on the likes of Alex Ibru, Abraham Adesanya etc. by the notorious "Strike Force" under the then Maj.Hamza Al-Mustapha

angelicwing:
Abacha never increased fuel price beyond N11.

sdindan:
This one is an opposite of Buhari

Buhari is targeting Northpole.

angelicwing:
Abacha never increased fuel price beyond N11.

sdindan:
This one is an opposite of Buhari
Buhari is targeting Northpole.

sdindan:
This one is an opposite of Buhari
Buhari is targeting Northpole.

GavelSlam:
Onyeka Onwenu campaigned for him .

jpphilips:



Just for your enlightenment, Abacha was not answerable to the SMC, it was the other way round, if in doubt, go and watch all the Oputa panel videos, If you were not a child then, you should be familiar with one of Nigeria's famous political lexicon of the Abacha era, "Oga, permit me to speak, you can't be wrong, even if you are wrong, you are right and we are wrong"
coming from the second highest ranking officer of the SMC, in view of that, there was no way abacha would consult the SMC before stashing away money.
Abacha could kill any member of the SMC for as little as sneezing, if in doubt ask Gen. Adisa and the weeping General. Oladipo diya.

The money was stashed in his name not Nigeria's, you don't keep a country's wealth in your personal account.
While evading intl sanctions if that was the reason as you eroneously believed, your personal account is the first target while a UNSC resolution only can target a country's account as the case of Libya.

Im sure you know that the regime members of North Korea all have their personal accounts frozen in the west, but the country's account is yet to be frozen despite being under heavy sanctions.

What you just regurgitated was the cheap lies he told few members of his administration with integrity like Buhari.
Unfortunately, Buhari like you till date, still believe that hogwash.

Fyi0:
Abacha is Nigeria's worst president ever. No question about that

mmb:
During the Abacha regime, Nigeria was in words and actions the true African leader. Throughout his time as head of state, Abacha never travelled outside Africa, perhaps to give effect to Nigeria’s Africa-centred foreign policy. The World Council of Mayors was hosted here in Abuja for the first and only time. Pope John Paul II was here on state visit. Nigeria was president of the UN Security Council during Abacha when the obnoxious apartheid policy of the minority white regime in South Africa was dismantled. For the first time in the history of Africa also, Abacha reversed a coup d’état and re-installed the overthrown democratically elected President Tejan Kabbah in Sierra Leone, when Nigeria’s General Maxwell Khobe successfully flushed out the Paul Koroma junta there. Nobody joked with Nigeria. Nigeria was well respected by all.

http://www.eyeway.ng/2017/11/16/remembering-the-abacha-regime/

InvertedHammer:


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US will never turn her back on a leader because of brutality. They supported Sadam Hussein, Gaddafi, etc until US "interests" are at stake. Dictator is the bad name they tag a dissenter before they overthrow him. Believe their PR media at your own peril. Do they abhor dictators? Why are they negotiating with Russia and North Korea?

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Albinoflash:
but buhari is trying so hard to beat that record.sai baba till 2040...,fulani amaka

ItsMeAboki:


No one could give more credible account of what really transpired than the actual witnesses present and who fully took part in the decision to stash away the money; fortunately at least two of them are still alive and they have spoken out; one of them General Bamaiyi, could have easily spoken against Abacha (because he was among the coup plotters jailed by him) but chose not to - therefore making his evidence even more credible.
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/abacha-never-stole-funds-traced-meant-weapon-purchase-bamaiyi/
https://www.herald.ng/abacha-steal-nigerias-money-jeremiah-useni/

No the money was not saved in Abacha's name but in fictitious names and some in his family names - that was why his sons, Mohammed and Abba were arrested until they agreed to return most of what was in their account names; it would have been naive to have stored them in Abacha's name because it would have defeated the purpose of hiding them, just as it was naive of you to point out the consequences suffered by the Koreans tha Abacha was quite sensibly avoiding.

The Oputa panel did no reveal anything that we did not already k now today except the version of what you and many of Abacha's more powerful enemies have scripted out for the rest of the world to follow.

Ndonu101:
The man was not popular with the EU, UK or US due to his brutality

Nigeria was also facing sanctions from these countries

So it would not have been possible to host such a dictator

Don’t spin this reality into some pan African foreign policy. Abacha did not have a foreign policy and only cared about remaining in office forever

deji68:
Dont mind him...Fuel shortage, infrastructure decay, Education moribund, Universities closures, record high unemployment ,insecurity, rampant
armed robbery rate ....... short memory dey worry them ...