IgbereTV reports that former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha has denied that his boss ever stole money from Nigeria.
Major Mustapha made this known in Lagos while speaking to journalists on his 15 years experience in prison.
He explained that late General Abacha had several attacks from people he stepped on during his administration. It was these people who declared late General Abacha an enemy and decided to give Abacha a bad image, even till today.
He said that it got to a time where Nigeria was threatened with foreign sanctions. The late General Abacha called a meeting of key stakeholders in Nigeria in which Abacha with them took the decision to keep money in foreign accounts in order to salvage Nigeria from the effect of the sanction. He said that a lot of these stakeholders are still alive today and relevant in Nigeria. But no one has taken time to interview them.
IgbereTV recalls that earlier in the year the Swiss government said it returned $723 million (equivalent to N142.43Bn) seized from Abacha’s family to the Nigeria government over the last ten years.
