Details of how Abacha died in 1998 – Al-Mustapha


Former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late Head of State, Gen Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has dismissed claims that Abacha died after eating an apple from his concubines.


Narrating how the former Head of State died, Al-Mustapha said contrary to insinuations, the sudden collapse of the health system of Abacha started on “Sunday, 7th June, 1998 right from the Abuja International Airport, immediately after one of the white security operatives or personnel who accompanied President Yasser Arafat of Palestine shook hands with him, Abacha.”

Al-Mustapha said shortly after the hand shake, he “noticed the change in the countenance of the late Commander-in-Chief and I informed the Aide-de-Camp, Lt. Col. Abdallah, accordingly. He, however, advised that we keep a close watch on the Head of State.”

He said, “Later in the evening of 8th June, 1998, around 6p.m; his doctor came around, administered an injection to stabilize him. He was advised to have a short rest. Happily, enough, by 9p.m; the Head of State was bouncing and receiving visitors until much later when General Jeremiah Timbut Useni, the then Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, came calling. He was fond of the Head of State. They were very good friends.

“They stayed and chatted together till about 3.35a.m. A friend of the house was with me in my office and as he was bidding me farewell, he came back to inform me that the FCT Minister, General Useni was out of the Head of State’s Guest House within the Villa. I then decided to inform the ADC and other security boys that I would be on my way home to prepare for the early morning event at the International Conference Centre.

“At about 5a.m; the security guards ran to my quarters to inform me that the Head of State was very unstable. At first, I thought it was a coup attempt. Immediately, I prepared myself fully for any eventuality. As an intelligence officer and the Chief Security Officer to the Head of State for that matter, I devised a means of diverting the attention of the security boys from my escape route by asking my wife to continue chatting with them at the door – she was in the house while the boys were outside. From there, I got to the Guest House of the Head of State before them.

“When I got to the bedside of the Head of State, he was already gasping. Ordinarily, I could not just touch him. It was not allowed in our job. But under the situation on ground, I knelt close to him and shouted, ‘General Sani Abacha, Sir, please grant me permission to touch and carry you.’

“I again knocked at the stool beside the bed and shouted in the same manner, yet he did not respond. I then realized there was a serious danger. I immediately called the Head of State’s personal physician, Dr. Wali, who arrived the place under eight minutes from his house. He immediately gave Oga – General Abacha –two doses of injection, one at the heart and another close to his neck.

“This did not work apparently as the Head of State had turned very cold. He then told me that the Head of State was dead and nothing could be done after all. I there and then asked the personal physician to remain with the dead body while I dashed home to be fully prepared for the problems that might arise from the incident.

“As soon as I informed my wife, she collapsed and burst into tears. I secured my house and then ran back. At that point, the Aide-de-Camp had been contacted by me and we decided that great caution must be taken in handling the grave situation.

“Again, I must reiterate that the issue of my boss dying on top of women was a great lie just as the insinuation that General Sani Abacha ate and died of poisoned apples was equally a wicked lie.
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  1. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace. Ameeen

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  2. WE HEARD ALL THESE BEFORE. SO WHAT ACTUALLY KILLED HIM? WAS THE HANDSHAKE BETWEEN ABACHA AND ARAFAT'S SECURITY AIDE OR BETWEEN ABACHS AND ARAFAT HIMSELF AS WAS EARLIER BANDIED? WHAT WAS THAT RING THAT WHOEVER SHOOK ABACHA WORE? WAS THE WHOLE THING AN AMERICAN JOB TO ARAFAT TO CARRY OUT IN ORDER TO GAIN THEIR FAVOUR IN THEIR PROBLEM WITH ISRAEL. LONG STORY. LONG THEORY. LONG PARADYM. WE MAY NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH JUST YET. WHERE DOES USENI FIT INTO ALL THESE SEEING THE HOSTITILITY ABACHA SHOWED USENI AFTER ABACHA'S DEMISE. WHAT OF IBB WHO WAS CONTACTED BY MUSTAPHA IMMEDIATELY ABACHA DIED AND WHO ALLEGEDLY WAS THE ONLY PERSON ALLOWED INTO ASO ROCK AFTER ABACHS'S DEATH? HE EVEN BOARDED THE PLANE TO KANO FOR THE BURIAL.MUSTAPHA OPEN UP MORE. Jay 2, Abuja.

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  3. Stop disturbing our Peace about hw abacha died everyday.

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  4. Abacha is a human being crested by God like us. Let us pray that God forgive him of his sins and accept him I to the kingdom of heaven in Jesus name. amen

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  5. Al-Mustapha has not given any details about what killed Abacha. All this story says nothing about his last minutes since you were not in the same room when he died. Please, stop fabricating story to cover what was rolled out at Abacha's death. Are you even insinuating that the hand shake from the white security operative or personel (as you claimed here) was responsible for Abacha's death? Give us another story!

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