₦airaland Forum

Barely 19 years after the demise
of a former Head of State, Gen.
Sani Abacha, a key player in his
government and a former Chief
of Army Staff in that regime, Lt.-
Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi has revealed
that the deceased may not have
died of natural causes. Abacha
died on June 8, 1998 at the Ask
Rock Villa, Abuja, but
controversies have continued to
trail his death till date. A
conspiracy theory has it that he
was poisoned and eliminated by
a powerful group within the
military while another has it that
he may have died of cardiac
arrest while frolicking with an
unknown lady of easy virtue.
The successor government,
however, announced then that
he died of natural causes.
However, Bamaiyi, who was one
of Abacha’s loyalists, have said
that only God and those
responsible would be able to tell
the cause of his death and
provide details of where and
how he died. Bamaiyi broke his
silence on the matter over the
weekend in a book he authored
and titled: Vindication of a
General. In Chapter 9 of the
book, Bamaiyi disputed the
official report on the death of
Abacha and accused the General
Abdulsalami Abubakar’s
government, as well as the
government of Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo of covering up the real
cause and circumstances of the
death of Abacha.
“I am one of those who do not
believe Abacha’s death was
natural. It causes more jubilation
than sorrow for many people. Al
the leads that would have been
investigated were not followed.
The sentence, “We killed Abacha”
was discovered in one security
officer’s house in his own
handwriting, but the matter was
not investigated because
anything that had to do with
Abacha was evil to the Obasanjo
government, regardless of the
fact that their actions were
worse than those of the
Abacha’s government,” he said.
The former COAS disclosed that
the manner in which key officials
of the Abacha government were
summoned to Aso Rock before
the news of his death was
broken was suspicious.
“Failure by officers in the Villa to
inform the Chief of Defence Staff
(CDS) and Chief of Army Staff
(COAS) of the death of the
Commander-in- Chief on June 8,
1998 after keeping them
waiting to see the C-in-C from
Friday until his death on Monday
is difficult to understand,
especially when they were kept
with some senior government
officials waiting to see the C-in-C
when the officers knew the C-in-
C was dead.
It was questionable and
suspicious,” he wrote. On why
General Jerry Useni, the most
senior military officer and next
in rank to Abacha did not
succeed the late C-in-C, Bamaiyi
said that Useni was the last
officer to be with Abacha when
he died and there were many
insinuations of his involvement
in Abacha’s death. “They were
mere insinuations; I believe Gen.
Useni had no hand in Abacha’s
death.
The second reason was that
when politicians and some
junior military officers were
planning to make Abacha
succeed himself, Gen. Useni was
said to be too involved in the
succession plan,” he said. The
book also dealt with the much-
celebrated Oputa Panel, Nigeria’s
equivalent of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission in
postapartheid South Africa.
Bamaiyi described the panel as a
tool designed by former
President Obasanjo to ridicule
retired Generals of the Nigeria
Army from the North. Unlike
similar panels in other parts of
the world, Bamaiyi said the
Oputa Panel was neither meant
to bring justice not true
reconciliation.
Bamaiyi accused Obasanjo of
acting in bad faith by allegedly
setting out to deal with him
(Bamaiyi) and some other
northern military officers who
were loyal to Abacha, the man
who jailed Obasanjo over an
alleged coup plot.
“Many Nigerians and non-
Nigerians have been deceived
about the reason for the Oputa
Panel. I strongly believe that the
Oputa Panel was not set up to
bring peace to Nigeria, but to
ridicule some former Heads of
State of northern origin and
prepare grounds for our
conviction.
There is no comparison between
our panel and that of South
Africa which was sincere, from a
God-fearing man who had good
intentions. “The panel was only
to ridicule people, including the
panel members whose work
was thrown into the waste
basket.
I believe the Oputa Panel was set
up by General Obasanjo to
ridicule former Heads of State
from the North and to show
Nigerians how some of us who
were known to be loyal to
Abacha had allegedly killed
Nigerians,” he said. Bamaiyi
described the panel as a waste
of time and resources, but
added that he benefited from it
as an individual as it gave him an
opportunity to set the records
straight in terms of all the
accusations levelled against him.


Source:https://newtelegraphonline.com/news/abachas-death-bamaiyi-accuses-obj-abdulsalami-cover/

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Abacha, the real badoo!!

Tell us your side story, after all you're part and parcel of that regime.. Now you have opportunity now, give us details of what transpired... Remembered Obasanjo was in prison she Abacha died.. Go ahead and stop ranting..

Adam ate apple, was kicked out of the garden,

abacha ate, was kicked out of the world

beware of APPLE.... end of story.

NIGHTFOX:
Adam ate apple, was kicked out of the garden,

abacha ate, was kicked out of the world

beware of APPLE.... end of story.

buh abacha no eat ordinary apple na... Na Iphone7 apple he chop...

Abacha is dead and we celebrated with joy instead of sorrow...

When a Democratic elected President who abandoned the Constitution and the Rule of Law, making himself a Tyrant or a dictator dies then there will be massive jubilation in the country... A kind that the country has neva experience before..

Let the intelligent read between the lines...

The kind grudge this man has for OBJ,can kill OBJ,a fool,with born to rule mentality

rubbish,in a sane society,this fool1sh man will be in jail for being part of a illegitimate government
let him tell us what he achieved when he was the COAS

hug the truth

Kemperor:
Abacha is dead and we celebrated with joy instead of sorrow...

When a Democratic elected President who abandoned the Constitution and the Rule of Law, making himself a Tyrant or a dictator dies then there will be massive jubilation in the country... A kind that the country has neva experience before..

Let the intelligent read between the lines...

every tyrant and dictator will die as Abacha died

Who took this guy's biscuits please return,he has been crying and wailing everyday

He's a liar.

He's an idiot.