₦airaland Forum

Officialgarri:
If people could still defend Jonathan's government and consider him a hero, then I'm not surprised Mustapha still considers Abacha a legend

Jonathan's government could steal a triple of Abacha's if God hadn't sent Buhari to oust him


Al-mustapha wants us to believe that the monies moved belonged to government and for government purposes.

Jonathan's government did exactly the same thing. For example, the Malabu oil deal. Despite the fact that Malabu oil deal was related to Abacha, wasn't it Jonathan that went ahead to run the scam deal using federal government account?

When Dasuki and Jonathan were sharing the $2 billion arms deal, did Olisa metuh and the rest not say it was National assignment, so they didn't need to know the source of the loot.

So what's the difference between Jonathan and Abacha and Obasanjo and Abdusalam ?

Nigerians are dangerously inflicted by curruption. Those who sat at the banquet of curruption and well fed are never expected to come out and speak against the personality of their man. Aftermath of Abacha, Jonathan......era in power are enough to convince the world that we are two live crew in this country.

143WaZoBia:
Funny how $4b suddenly became what’s holding Nigeria back. I really don’t think Abacha was a looter, I think they took him out because both the Nigerian and foreign elites couldn’t control him because if the west does not have anything to do with his death, they would have made sure we got to the root of abacha’s death. Now they have killed him 20+ later. The country hasn’t really changed from what he left. I will prefer a military regime to the stupid democracy that’s only for the political class under the control of white men.
Fighting corruption and asking for impunity imbeciles

isn't it funny the almost $5billion alleged Abacha loot is from his own economy unlike Obasanjo that borrowed $16billion for power and we can see anything to show for it, Jonathan also borrowed and looted, Now Buhari and his crew are also making their own request... when Abacha could boost the foreign reserve and still have spare $5bn without borrowing a penny

Military regime are generally cheaper than this democracy and there is discipline , but my fears is that Obasanjo in 1999 had already retired all major military brains we had, the ones there like Burutai and co are just like politician

Officialgarri:
If people could still defend Jonathan's government and consider him a hero, then I'm not surprised Mustapha still considers Abacha a legend

Jonathan's government could steal a triple of Abacha's if God hadn't sent Buhari to oust him


Al-mustapha wants us to believe that the monies moved belonged to government and for government purposes.

Jonathan's government did exactly the same thing. For example, the Malabu oil deal. Despite the fact that Malabu oil deal was related to Abacha, wasn't it Jonathan that went ahead to run the scam deal using federal government account?

When Dasuki and Jonathan were sharing the $2 billion arms deal, did Olisa metuh and the rest not say it was National assignment, so they didn't need to know the source of the loot.

So what's the difference between Jonathan and Abacha and Obasanjo and Abdusalam ?

This is exactly my thinking.

Reference:
Here we go again. Citizens and kings. We never seem to be able to see beyond individuals to the reak deal, institutions. Perhaps that is why we are so religious in Nigeria. We need an image to depend on.

The correct 'truth' is that the quality of any man who aspires to leadership is measured by the effect he has on the institutions he commands and by extension the effectiveness of that institution in promoting the good of those the institution was set up to serve.

So basically there can be no military Head of State anywhere that can pass the test of quality leadership simply by their nature which is the truncating of civil liberties, which means the stopping of citizens from exercising their franchise in choosing leadership and learning from the success and failures in the process.

Remember the one and only function of government anywhere in the world is simply to: Organise Society'. It is the strength of society, the intellect of society, the wealth of society that combines to prosper a people and develop a nation, not government. That is why a weak people, an ignorant people, a divided people can never experience progress no matter who rules or what kind of government is practiced.

Military rule simply does not let the average citizen go to the school of society building that leads to national development. That is why the first thing they do is suspend the Legislature (the crucible for debates that leads to understanding, agreements and solidarity) and the Judiciary (where civil disputes are decided) choosing to rule instead by decree.

A simple, poignant example.

If a military ruler was in power operating by decree the issue of farmers/herdsmen conflicts will have been settled, swiftly one way or the other most likely in favour of one side and to the displeasure of the other. Such resultant 'peace' cannot be said to be sustainable nor progressive and often ends badly but what democracy brings is an opportunity to negotiate a solution where resolutions are more likely done on a basis of give and take. Nobody wins all, nobody loses all. This is the model all successful, prosperous nations adopt.

The quality of leadership is then measured by any leaders' ability to expand, sustain and deepen such demcratic mechanisms that guarantee civil liberties and prosperity.

Hian, this kain grammar for this midnight. Sorry oga, Abacha is corrupt.

Abacha looted Nigeria Plain and simple. He took funds out he country at his own discretion out to protect his illegitimate Gorverment. Some of the funds only him and some of his close associates could easily access.

TheTourist:
SAME OLD RUBBISH TALK WITH A LOT OF CONSPIRACY AND COVERUPS.


LIES!!

Because the black man is indifferent to knowledge, will not record history, will not seek facts, will not document anything and will not read what is documented.

If this was any other country the man needn't explain anything so long after. Indepth research will have been done on the Abacha years... all government's for that matter and the facts will have been archived for future studies but we are not that diligent so we only have rumours, double talk and misinformation ruling.

For somerhing as tragic as the civil war where millions of lives were lost and tectonuc shifts in our existence occurred there is very little information in the public domain by way of books, journals and documentaries. To get some facts you will have to travel to London, Russia and the United States to get them.

We live in a crab bucket or a black hole where nothing goes in or out.... a dead society. Of course the man has every right fo say what he likes. Where are your facts to dispute him.

Kubernetes:
Abacha met $200 Million Dollars in foreign reserve and built it to $9billion in five years when fuel was $8/pb.

Waooo.... he tried

Just imagine! At $8 the man still increased our FR that high. Now it's borrowing galore, no thanks to the legislooters

J111333:
Hian, this kain grammar for this midnight. Sorry oga, Abacha is corrupt.

Read, read, read. It doesn't hurt. Black man. Read!!!!!

iammo:
isn't it funny the almost $5billion alleged Abacha loot is from his own economy unlike Obasanjo that borrowed $16billion for power and we can see anything to show for it, Jonathan also borrowed and looted, Now Buhari and his crew are also making their own request... when Abacha could boost the foreign reserve and still have spare $5bn without borrowing a penny

Military regime are generally cheaper than this democracy and there is discipline , but my fears is that Obasanjo in 1999 had already retired all major military brains we had, the ones there like Burutai and co are just like politician

Everything is politics now. I pray that one day we stumble upon governance.

Someone said when recovered loot is looted again, it is called Aluta Continua!

galadima77:
Just imagine! At $8 the man still increased our FR that high. Now it's borrowing galore, no thanks to the legislooters

Just the cost of government... or some may say democracy. Shows that we as citizens remain incapable of agreeing to cut our costs and move forward. We are a weak people. Weak people are not disciplined. Accept everything, reject nothing.

Reference:
Read, read, tead. It doesn't hurt. Black man. Read!!!!!

I have my Waec and Jamb exams to read for biko, wetin concern me concern Abacha?

moscobabs:
Al-Mustapha know more and I believe him, if this guy should talk, Nigeria would be on fire. But believe me, the money stole in this country in 1999-2007 is far more than this Abacha loot.

If dead could defend himself

If he talks Nigeria will be on fire. Danjuma said if he talks Nigeria will be on fire..

None of them has talked yet Nigeria is on fire already or is she not burning?. Will you give me a break please? Who doesn't know Nigeria is wack and burning? Nonsense.

And trust lazy youths, they have swallowed it line hook and sinker, have started praising Abacha already. He didn't loot yet money is being returned.

Dooooomed country without hopeless youths.

Witcher:
Gen. Sani Abacha Was Largely Misunderstood
The painful death of Gen Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Ordinarily, twenty-one years is a long enough period for the living to forget the dead. But a lot of sentiments still trail Gen. Abacha’s name both in Nigeria and elsewhere. Why is it so? It is because the man had the infectious grin, the energy, the faithfulness, the shining confidence, the sagacity, the courage and the zest that leaped out of a background of solid patriotism hitherto unknown and yet to be rivaled in Nigeria. Therefore, to remember him now, twenty-one years after his untimely death, with the image of a living man in our hands, shows that Abacha is larger than life, in the memories, emotions, and minds of his fellow Nigerians. After death, the real Abacha is now the symbolic man, the figure about who have clustered the yearnings, the lofty ideals and the aspirations Nigerians have for themselves and their country.

Having worked himself up the hallowed cadre of the Nigerian ruling class as Head of State, Abacha, in his passion, concern and vulnerability, was one of the representative men of his generation. His personal quest for identity, understanding and power mirrored the turbulence, paradox and dream of mid-twentieth century Nigeria. He lived through a time of unusual turbulence in the history of the country, and he responded to that turbulence more directly and more sensitively than any other political leader of the era, at least in Africa. Gen. Abacha was equipped with certitudes of courage, faith and love for country- attributes that sustained him till death. But they were the premises, not the conclusions of his life. For he possessed, to an exceptional degree, what literary experts call “an experiencing nature”. History changed him, and had time permitted, he would have changed history. His relationship to his era makes him, unarguably, one who embodies the consciousness of an epoch, who perceives things in fresh light and new connections, who exhibits unsuspected possibilities of purpose and action to his contemporaries.

Indeed, Gen. Abacha never had the time to fulfill his own possibilities, which is why his memory haunts so many of us now. Because he wanted to get things done; because he was often impatient and combative; because he felt simply and cared deeply, he made his share of mistakes, and enemies. He was a romantic and also an idealist, and he was also prudent, expedient, demanding, fearless and ambitious. Yet the insights he brought to governance- insights earned in a labour of self-discipline and self-purgation that only death could stop- led him to see power not as an end in itself but as the means of redeeming the powerless. Abacha was to Nigeria what Charles de Gaule was to France: a man with military background but, who, ironically, brought uncommon composure and dignity to statecraft. This is not to say that military personnel possess exceptional leadership qualities. Far from it! Those ones only worked up themselves to become the tribunes of their generations. It only brings us to the incontrovertible fact that democracy is still preferred to the most benevolent military dictatorship anywhere, anytime. Abacha was indeed a diamond among stones. But because he was maligned and castigated by a section (Lagos/Ibadan axis) of the Nigerian Press due largely to political considerations, he became the most misunderstood of Nigerian leaders.

In fact, the emotional legacy left by Gen. Abacha is so intense in Nigeria, but it is yet deeper and even more fervent in the entire West African sub-region. This point is important and thus could be made with an antidote: since a man is not measured by what he did before he became a leader, or by what he said and did after he was a leader, but by what he did, and not by what he said while he was a leader, we can now comprehend the passionate veneration of Gen. Abacha’s memory. Today, we seek a sense of the man in order to understand the deep emotional response to the memory of the man. We know what happened and we cannot undo that knowledge. Even as his immediate friends and successors started destroying what he stood for soon after his painful exit, we cannot but get the record straight. But the meaning of that straightened record is inextricably involved in the meaning we also try each day to discern in the confusion of the living present. It is a tragic reality that those who thought to have upheld his enviable legacies have demonstrated a grand betrayal of what the man stood and died for. Could Abacha have built mansions, bought limousines, owned oil wells and own universities while in power? The answer to this poser is a loud NO!

The conditions of misery and inequality that troubled Abacha still persist among Nigerians while people in power remain untroubled. Despite his extremely emotional bent, Abacha’s youthful vigour and impressive grasp of the black man’s burden won for him national and international acclaim. His administration which lasted for about five (5) years was most memorable, leaving a 36-state structure for the country and achieving a leadership for Nigeria in Africa through a decisive foreign policy thrust that was basically Afrocentric, and a clearly defined anti-corruption war. Perhaps, the most concrete demonstration of this was his mobilisation of West African leadership to restore order in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Under his watch, Nigerian soldiers restored democracy to those West African countries. In 1996, Gen Abacha created a number of new states to give some marginalised people a sense of belonging: Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Gombe, Nasarawa and Zamfara.

An expression of his unrelenting crusade against corruption was accentuated in the setting up of the Anti-Failed Banks Tribunal and the National Deposit Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NDIC). Even though his actions had some unintended consequences, his anti-corruption campaign was not merely cosmetic. It was on the basis of the depth and spread of his anti-corruption campaign that analysts had a unanimous position that his attempt at sanitising the system was total. But not for his mature and courageous handling of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election crisis, Nigeria would have relapsed into another civil war. Despite the Afrocentricism of Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust under Gen. Abacha, Nigeria was not a big brother without a home, her impact was deeply felt in all the four corners of Africa. When Cameroon tried to annex part of the Nigerian territory in 1995, Abacha sent Nigerian troops to check that country’s egocentric maneuvering. Under him, the Nigerian economy was most stable throughout his years in power despite being branded a pariah state as a result of international conspiracy against Nigeria. Throughout Gen. Abacha’s five years in the saddle, Nigeria did not owe any external debt.



What people now mischievously refer to as “the Abacha loot” was the money the country kept in foreign banks deliberately to ward off the plot by the foreign powers to block our foreign reserve. This shows that Gen. Abacha was ahead of his time. He was a very trust-worthy man who never disappointed his friends. His composite love for Nigerians was legendary. Of all the military men who ruled Nigeria from 1976 to 1999, after the assassination of Gen. Murtala Muhammed: Olusegun Obasanjo, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, and Abdulsallami Abubakar, Abacha was the best in terms of managing the economy for the good of all Nigerians. His economic team led by Prof. Sam Aloku, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, Dr. Paul Ogwuma, and Chief Anthony Ani, remains the best till date.

Can there be any wonder, therefore, that Nigerians in their millions cannot fail to contemplate the shrew, practical, resourceful and often irritatingly dynamic leadership qualities of their only leader who came close to possessing the ennobling ethos of a national hero? It can be said emphatically that Nigerians can appreciate good things and love to celebrate a hero when they see one. The Nigerian intelligentsia including scholars, students in Nigeria and the world over still celebrate him. Which is why twenty one years after his untimely death, memories of Abacha’s pragmatic leadership still linger in their consciousness. It is as a result of the scarcity of men of Abacha’s latent qualities in leadership positions that Nigerians are yearning for him twenty one years after. But a time will surely come again when the most endowed nation in Africa will overcome its indifference to the degradation of its citizens. Only then can Gen. Abacha’s tall legacies be seen to have exemplary values.

From this your long but interesting write up, it shows you are an informed Nigerian who has fact and figure in her finger tips. I really commend you for this fact, I am sure one day the facts will surface for all to see. Thump up.

Abdulsalami tenure is the worst, that man loot silently.

LONGPREEK:
abacha was best head of state and presido naija ever had. too bad good things do not last. this is the only guy that made nigeria mony to have value. he was almost close to fixing the eonomy before he was taken out

U people have started again....
Best nigerian president indeed.....

That was how u guyz hyped buhari as the best thing that ever happened to nigeria....
Thank God he returned as president so all can witness his incompetence....
Or else people would have said buhari was our messiah who wasn't given a chance....

Reference:
Just the cost of government... or some may say democracy. Shows that we as citizens remain incapable of agreeing to cut our costs and move forward. We are a weak people. Weak people are not disciplined. Accept everything, reject nothing.

Can't agree any less. Weak indeed.

You believe the parrot called Mustapha.He only understands how to shoot gun not finance and economics. Another army officer that did not pass staff college exams.The Major rank he wore was a donation. His oga Abacha is even worse than Buhari,he was drafted from middle school(equivalent of JSS 3 now) to the army.These are the folks who had been elevated to leadership positions in Nigeria.

Kubernetes:
Abacha met $200 Million Dollars in foreign reserve and built it to $9billion in five years when fuel was $8/pb.

Waooo.... he tried

iammo:


interesting read... After Obsanjo dies and cant defend himself we would suddenly start hearing facts about the $16billion power loan he also took, same with Buhari and the $22billion, atleast Abacha never borrowed a penny

Do you have any source to prove that OBJ borrowed $16 billion dollar?

Kubernetes:
Abacha met $200 Million Dollars in foreign reserve and built it to $9billion in five years when fuel was $8/pb.

Waooo.... he tried

Evidence?

Xisnin:
Do you have any source to prove that OBJ borrowed $16 billion dollar?

make your own research on the power scam read house of rep reports, google the news revlving the scam and help your self

Witcher:
Gen. Sani Abacha Was Largely Misunderstood
The painful death of Gen Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Ordinarily, twenty-one years is a long enough period for the living to forget the dead. But a lot of sentiments still trail Gen. Abacha’s name both in Nigeria and elsewhere. Why is it so? It is because the man had the infectious grin, the energy, the faithfulness, the shining confidence, the sagacity, the courage and the zest that leaped out of a background of solid patriotism hitherto unknown and yet to be rivaled in Nigeria. Therefore, to remember him now, twenty-one years after his untimely death, with the image of a living man in our hands, shows that Abacha is larger than life, in the memories, emotions, and minds of his fellow Nigerians. After death, the real Abacha is now the symbolic man, the figure about who have clustered the yearnings, the lofty ideals and the aspirations Nigerians have for themselves and their country.

Having worked himself up the hallowed cadre of the Nigerian ruling class as Head of State, Abacha, in his passion, concern and vulnerability, was one of the representative men of his generation. His personal quest for identity, understanding and power mirrored the turbulence, paradox and dream of mid-twentieth century Nigeria. He lived through a time of unusual turbulence in the history of the country, and he responded to that turbulence more directly and more sensitively than any other political leader of the era, at least in Africa. Gen. Abacha was equipped with certitudes of courage, faith and love for country- attributes that sustained him till death. But they were the premises, not the conclusions of his life. For he possessed, to an exceptional degree, what literary experts call “an experiencing nature”. History changed him, and had time permitted, he would have changed history. His relationship to his era makes him, unarguably, one who embodies the consciousness of an epoch, who perceives things in fresh light and new connections, who exhibits unsuspected possibilities of purpose and action to his contemporaries.

Indeed, Gen. Abacha never had the time to fulfill his own possibilities, which is why his memory haunts so many of us now. Because he wanted to get things done; because he was often impatient and combative; because he felt simply and cared deeply, he made his share of mistakes, and enemies. He was a romantic and also an idealist, and he was also prudent, expedient, demanding, fearless and ambitious. Yet the insights he brought to governance- insights earned in a labour of self-discipline and self-purgation that only death could stop- led him to see power not as an end in itself but as the means of redeeming the powerless. Abacha was to Nigeria what Charles de Gaule was to France: a man with military background but, who, ironically, brought uncommon composure and dignity to statecraft. This is not to say that military personnel possess exceptional leadership qualities. Far from it! Those ones only worked up themselves to become the tribunes of their generations. It only brings us to the incontrovertible fact that democracy is still preferred to the most benevolent military dictatorship anywhere, anytime. Abacha was indeed a diamond among stones. But because he was maligned and castigated by a section (Lagos/Ibadan axis) of the Nigerian Press due largely to political considerations, he became the most misunderstood of Nigerian leaders.

In fact, the emotional legacy left by Gen. Abacha is so intense in Nigeria, but it is yet deeper and even more fervent in the entire West African sub-region. This point is important and thus could be made with an antidote: since a man is not measured by what he did before he became a leader, or by what he said and did after he was a leader, but by what he did, and not by what he said while he was a leader, we can now comprehend the passionate veneration of Gen. Abacha’s memory. Today, we seek a sense of the man in order to understand the deep emotional response to the memory of the man. We know what happened and we cannot undo that knowledge. Even as his immediate friends and successors started destroying what he stood for soon after his painful exit, we cannot but get the record straight. But the meaning of that straightened record is inextricably involved in the meaning we also try each day to discern in the confusion of the living present. It is a tragic reality that those who thought to have upheld his enviable legacies have demonstrated a grand betrayal of what the man stood and died for. Could Abacha have built mansions, bought limousines, owned oil wells and own universities while in power? The answer to this poser is a loud NO!

The conditions of misery and inequality that troubled Abacha still persist among Nigerians while people in power remain untroubled. Despite his extremely emotional bent, Abacha’s youthful vigour and impressive grasp of the black man’s burden won for him national and international acclaim. His administration which lasted for about five (5) years was most memorable, leaving a 36-state structure for the country and achieving a leadership for Nigeria in Africa through a decisive foreign policy thrust that was basically Afrocentric, and a clearly defined anti-corruption war. Perhaps, the most concrete demonstration of this was his mobilisation of West African leadership to restore order in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Under his watch, Nigerian soldiers restored democracy to those West African countries. In 1996, Gen Abacha created a number of new states to give some marginalised people a sense of belonging: Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Gombe, Nasarawa and Zamfara.

An expression of his unrelenting crusade against corruption was accentuated in the setting up of the Anti-Failed Banks Tribunal and the National Deposit Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NDIC). Even though his actions had some unintended consequences, his anti-corruption campaign was not merely cosmetic. It was on the basis of the depth and spread of his anti-corruption campaign that analysts had a unanimous position that his attempt at sanitising the system was total. But not for his mature and courageous handling of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election crisis, Nigeria would have relapsed into another civil war. Despite the Afrocentricism of Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust under Gen. Abacha, Nigeria was not a big brother without a home, her impact was deeply felt in all the four corners of Africa. When Cameroon tried to annex part of the Nigerian territory in 1995, Abacha sent Nigerian troops to check that country’s egocentric maneuvering. Under him, the Nigerian economy was most stable throughout his years in power despite being branded a pariah state as a result of international conspiracy against Nigeria. Throughout Gen. Abacha’s five years in the saddle, Nigeria did not owe any external debt.



What people now mischievously refer to as “the Abacha loot” was the money the country kept in foreign banks deliberately to ward off the plot by the foreign powers to block our foreign reserve. This shows that Gen. Abacha was ahead of his time. He was a very trust-worthy man who never disappointed his friends. His composite love for Nigerians was legendary. Of all the military men who ruled Nigeria from 1976 to 1999, after the assassination of Gen. Murtala Muhammed: Olusegun Obasanjo, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, and Abdulsallami Abubakar, Abacha was the best in terms of managing the economy for the good of all Nigerians. His economic team led by Prof. Sam Aloku, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, Dr. Paul Ogwuma, and Chief Anthony Ani, remains the best till date.

Can there be any wonder, therefore, that Nigerians in their millions cannot fail to contemplate the shrew, practical, resourceful and often irritatingly dynamic leadership qualities of their only leader who came close to possessing the ennobling ethos of a national hero? It can be said emphatically that Nigerians can appreciate good things and love to celebrate a hero when they see one. The Nigerian intelligentsia including scholars, students in Nigeria and the world over still celebrate him. Which is why twenty one years after his untimely death, memories of Abacha’s pragmatic leadership still linger in their consciousness. It is as a result of the scarcity of men of Abacha’s latent qualities in leadership positions that Nigerians are yearning for him twenty one years after. But a time will surely come again when the most endowed nation in Africa will overcome its indifference to the degradation of its citizens. Only then can Gen. Abacha’s tall legacies be seen to have exemplary values.

U are talking absolute trash!!!!!!! A daydreaming epistle.

Abacha started well till he became intoxicated with power from then his many mistakes trailed him. Nobody knows about the looted funds they say like the money disappeared and appeared in foreign banks. Al Mustapha sounding like a harmless saint now was the most Notorious being ever liveth back then the whole military and even civilians know this for a fact. I hate when people twist history out of sentiments. Say it as it is plssssss.

iammo:
make your own research on the power scam read house of rep reports, google the news revlving the scam and help your self

You made a claim and then dodged my question.
Anyone can use the word "scam" but it means nothing without evidence.

If you had bothered to do research and read actual reports, you will find out that Nigeria at no time borrowed 16 billion dollars.
Neither was 16 billion dollars spent at any time during OBJ's tenure.

Sensational news headlines are not a reliable source of facts.
Take your own advice and do your research.

Officialgarri:
If people could still defend Jonathan's government and consider him a hero, then I'm not surprised Mustapha still considers Abacha a legend

Jonathan's government could steal a triple of Abacha's if God hadn't sent Buhari to oust him


Al-mustapha wants us to believe that the monies moved belonged to government and for government purposes.

Jonathan's government did exactly the same thing. For example, the Malabu oil deal. Despite the fact that Malabu oil deal was related to Abacha, wasn't it Jonathan that went ahead to run the scam deal using federal government account?

When Dasuki and Jonathan were sharing the $2 billion arms deal, did Olisa metuh and the rest not say it was National assignment, so they didn't need to know the source of the loot.

So what's the difference between Jonathan and Abacha and Obasanjo and Abdusalam ?

The difference is one is a dead thief and the remaining three-plus Buhari are living thieves.

Any sain man that Abacha offshore was used as Nigeria foriegn CBN need their head examine.

Xisnin:
You made a claim and then dodged my question.
Anyone can use the word "scam" but it means nothing without evidence.

If you had bothered to do research and read actual reports, you will find out that Nigeria at no time borrowed 16 billion dollars.
Neither was 16 billion dollars spent at any time during OBJ's tenure.

Sensational news headlines are not a reliable source of facts.
Take your own advice and do your research.

Look dude, I really don't have time for silly talks .. if you can make a research disputing my fact then submit your facts, the burden of proof lies with the accuser..

Witcher:
Gen. Sani Abacha Was Largely Misunderstood
The painful death of Gen Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Ordinarily, twenty-one years is a long enough period for the living to forget the dead. But a lot of sentiments still trail Gen. Abacha’s name both in Nigeria and elsewhere. Why is it so? It is because the man had the infectious grin, the energy, the faithfulness, the shining confidence, the sagacity, the courage and the zest that leaped out of a background of solid patriotism hitherto unknown and yet to be rivaled in Nigeria. Therefore, to remember him now, twenty-one years after his untimely death, with the image of a living man in our hands, shows that Abacha is larger than life, in the memories, emotions, and minds of his fellow Nigerians. After death, the real Abacha is now the symbolic man, the figure about who have clustered the yearnings, the lofty ideals and the aspirations Nigerians have for themselves and their country.

Having worked himself up the hallowed cadre of the Nigerian ruling class as Head of State, Abacha, in his passion, concern and vulnerability, was one of the representative men of his generation. His personal quest for identity, understanding and power mirrored the turbulence, paradox and dream of mid-twentieth century Nigeria. He lived through a time of unusual turbulence in the history of the country, and he responded to that turbulence more directly and more sensitively than any other political leader of the era, at least in Africa. Gen. Abacha was equipped with certitudes of courage, faith and love for country- attributes that sustained him till death. But they were the premises, not the conclusions of his life. For he possessed, to an exceptional degree, what literary experts call “an experiencing nature”. History changed him, and had time permitted, he would have changed history. His relationship to his era makes him, unarguably, one who embodies the consciousness of an epoch, who perceives things in fresh light and new connections, who exhibits unsuspected possibilities of purpose and action to his contemporaries.

Indeed, Gen. Abacha never had the time to fulfill his own possibilities, which is why his memory haunts so many of us now. Because he wanted to get things done; because he was often impatient and combative; because he felt simply and cared deeply, he made his share of mistakes, and enemies. He was a romantic and also an idealist, and he was also prudent, expedient, demanding, fearless and ambitious. Yet the insights he brought to governance- insights earned in a labour of self-discipline and self-purgation that only death could stop- led him to see power not as an end in itself but as the means of redeeming the powerless. Abacha was to Nigeria what Charles de Gaule was to France: a man with military background but, who, ironically, brought uncommon composure and dignity to statecraft. This is not to say that military personnel possess exceptional leadership qualities. Far from it! Those ones only worked up themselves to become the tribunes of their generations. It only brings us to the incontrovertible fact that democracy is still preferred to the most benevolent military dictatorship anywhere, anytime. Abacha was indeed a diamond among stones. But because he was maligned and castigated by a section (Lagos/Ibadan axis) of the Nigerian Press due largely to political considerations, he became the most misunderstood of Nigerian leaders.

In fact, the emotional legacy left by Gen. Abacha is so intense in Nigeria, but it is yet deeper and even more fervent in the entire West African sub-region. This point is important and thus could be made with an antidote: since a man is not measured by what he did before he became a leader, or by what he said and did after he was a leader, but by what he did, and not by what he said while he was a leader, we can now comprehend the passionate veneration of Gen. Abacha’s memory. Today, we seek a sense of the man in order to understand the deep emotional response to the memory of the man. We know what happened and we cannot undo that knowledge. Even as his immediate friends and successors started destroying what he stood for soon after his painful exit, we cannot but get the record straight. But the meaning of that straightened record is inextricably involved in the meaning we also try each day to discern in the confusion of the living present. It is a tragic reality that those who thought to have upheld his enviable legacies have demonstrated a grand betrayal of what the man stood and died for. Could Abacha have built mansions, bought limousines, owned oil wells and own universities while in power? The answer to this poser is a loud NO!

The conditions of misery and inequality that troubled Abacha still persist among Nigerians while people in power remain untroubled. Despite his extremely emotional bent, Abacha’s youthful vigour and impressive grasp of the black man’s burden won for him national and international acclaim. His administration which lasted for about five (5) years was most memorable, leaving a 36-state structure for the country and achieving a leadership for Nigeria in Africa through a decisive foreign policy thrust that was basically Afrocentric, and a clearly defined anti-corruption war. Perhaps, the most concrete demonstration of this was his mobilisation of West African leadership to restore order in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Under his watch, Nigerian soldiers restored democracy to those West African countries. In 1996, Gen Abacha created a number of new states to give some marginalised people a sense of belonging: Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Gombe, Nasarawa and Zamfara.

An expression of his unrelenting crusade against corruption was accentuated in the setting up of the Anti-Failed Banks Tribunal and the National Deposit Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NDIC). Even though his actions had some unintended consequences, his anti-corruption campaign was not merely cosmetic. It was on the basis of the depth and spread of his anti-corruption campaign that analysts had a unanimous position that his attempt at sanitising the system was total. But not for his mature and courageous handling of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election crisis, Nigeria would have relapsed into another civil war. Despite the Afrocentricism of Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust under Gen. Abacha, Nigeria was not a big brother without a home, her impact was deeply felt in all the four corners of Africa. When Cameroon tried to annex part of the Nigerian territory in 1995, Abacha sent Nigerian troops to check that country’s egocentric maneuvering. Under him, the Nigerian economy was most stable throughout his years in power despite being branded a pariah state as a result of international conspiracy against Nigeria. Throughout Gen. Abacha’s five years in the saddle, Nigeria did not owe any external debt.



What people now mischievously refer to as “the Abacha loot” was the money the country kept in foreign banks deliberately to ward off the plot by the foreign powers to block our foreign reserve. This shows that Gen. Abacha was ahead of his time. He was a very trust-worthy man who never disappointed his friends. His composite love for Nigerians was legendary. Of all the military men who ruled Nigeria from 1976 to 1999, after the assassination of Gen. Murtala Muhammed: Olusegun Obasanjo, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, and Abdulsallami Abubakar, Abacha was the best in terms of managing the economy for the good of all Nigerians. His economic team led by Prof. Sam Aloku, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, Dr. Paul Ogwuma, and Chief Anthony Ani, remains the best till date.

Can there be any wonder, therefore, that Nigerians in their millions cannot fail to contemplate the shrew, practical, resourceful and often irritatingly dynamic leadership qualities of their only leader who came close to possessing the ennobling ethos of a national hero? It can be said emphatically that Nigerians can appreciate good things and love to celebrate a hero when they see one. The Nigerian intelligentsia including scholars, students in Nigeria and the world over still celebrate him. Which is why twenty one years after his untimely death, memories of Abacha’s pragmatic leadership still linger in their consciousness. It is as a result of the scarcity of men of Abacha’s latent qualities in leadership positions that Nigerians are yearning for him twenty one years after. But a time will surely come again when the most endowed nation in Africa will overcome its indifference to the degradation of its citizens. Only then can Gen. Abacha’s tall legacies be seen to have exemplary values.

Da kyau! rubutun ka ya burgeni, lets continue to depend this Man until the propaganda against him vanish. i'll continue to follow your comments. thank you.

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Revealing

Officialgarri:
If people could still defend Jonathan's government and consider him a hero, then I'm not surprised Mustapha still considers Abacha a legend

Jonathan's government could steal a triple of Abacha's if God hadn't sent Buhari to oust him


Al-mustapha wants us to believe that the monies moved belonged to government and for government purposes.

Jonathan's government did exactly the same thing. For example, the Malabu oil deal. Despite the fact that Malabu oil deal was related to Abacha, wasn't it Jonathan that went ahead to run the scam deal using federal government account?

When Dasuki and Jonathan were sharing the $2 billion arms deal, did Olisa metuh and the rest not say it was National assignment, so they didn't need to know the source of the loot.

So what's the difference between Jonathan and Abacha and Obasanjo and Abdusalam ?

And what is the difference between those regimes you mentioned and Buhari's regime?
Is corruption not still walking on all fours and even threatening to fly? What is happening to our resources under this government? Why are we borrowing huge amounts without results to show for it?

Dark days.

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Officialgarri:
If people could still defend Jonathan's government and consider him a hero, then I'm not surprised Mustapha still considers Abacha a legend

Jonathan's government could steal a triple of Abacha's if God hadn't sent Buhari to oust him


Al-mustapha wants us to believe that the monies moved belonged to government and for government purposes.

Jonathan's government did exactly the same thing. For example, the Malabu oil deal. Despite the fact that Malabu oil deal was related to Abacha, wasn't it Jonathan that went ahead to run the scam deal using federal government account?

When Dasuki and Jonathan were sharing the $2 billion arms deal, did Olisa metuh and the rest not say it was National assignment, so they didn't need to know the source of the loot.

So what's the difference between Jonathan and Abacha and Obasanjo and Abdusalam ?

@your last line..the difference is that Abacha never stole - Buhari your Lord.

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It was one of the best Governments we had in this country. For instance, the Government built Federal Medical Centers and Federal Secretariat in all the States of the Federation. It never owed any Civil Servant etc. May God bless Abacha