Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security Officer of former military head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, on Friday in Enugu, said he had no regrets over his actions and subsequent travails.
Al-Mustapha was arrested and tried for the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Abiola, following Abacha’s death in 1998. On January 30, 2012, he was convicted by a Lagos High Court and sentenced to death by hanging.
However, reprieve came his way when he was discharged and acquitted of the crime by the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal on July 12, 2013.