The Lagos division of the
Appeal court has discharged and acquitted former Chief Security Officer to the
Late Head of State Sani Abacha, Major
Hamza Al-Mustapha of
the conspiracy and murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola.
According
to Channels TV, the court decision was unanimous. They
ruled that there was no direct circumstantial evidence that he conspired
with anyone as evidence of prosecution witnesses in that regard were
contradictory.
Lateef
Shofolahan, Al-Mustapha’s co-accused has also been discharged on the same
grounds.
Al-Mustapha
and Shofolahan were first arraigned in October 1999 on a four-count charge on
conspiracy and involvement in the 1996 murder of the late Kudirat Abiola (Wife
of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola) on the Lagos/Ibadan expressway.
They
both appealed against the judgement of a Lagos High Court which sentenced them
to death.
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