I Could Have Taken Over Power After Abacha Died – Al- Mustapha Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief Security Offcier to late ge. Sani Abacha has said that he could have taken over power immediately after the demise of his boss, but refused to because God used him to chart a course for the country. Al-Mustapha made this disclosure during a visit to the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Peoples Force (NDVPF) at his residence in Abuja. While recalling his days in detention, Al- Mustapha said of all the years he spent working with the late General Abacha, the only crime he was accused of was the murder of Alhaja Kudirat; one he said his accusers could not prove because he did not do it. He said: “You know there were 10 panels I faced in five years. None of these panels found me guilty of anything. My offence was just one: Mrs Abiola’s murder. All in all, I stayed for five years and two months in solitary detention.” While singing his self-praise for choosing not to take over the reins of leadership and chart a different course upon the death of the late despotic ruler, Al- Mustapha, lamented that some people cashed in on his humility and loyalty to the service of the country to punish him unjustly. He said: “Ours is to serve, preserve the country and I did. If I had wanted, after the death of General Sani Abacha, this country would have witnessed another thing. But in our character, ours is to serve the country and I did. Nobody fired one bullet the day General Abacha died. God gave me the courage. But there were so many confusion, so many agitation at that time. “But God used me to stabilise a course and it is the course that gave birth to this democracy. So, if I had not done so that time, we would have changed the course of history. Bur because we kept quiet, we were humble and committed to the country, people now turned it around.”
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:01:05 +0000
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