Kudirat: Appeal Court frees Al- Mustapha

Started by Mirror, Jul 12, 2013, 03:31 PM

Mirror

Former Chief Security Officer to the late Nigerian Head of State, Gen Sani Abacha,  Major Hamza Al- Mustapha was this morning  discharged and acquitted of the alleged murder of  Kudirat,  the  wife of  late Chief MKO Abiola, the Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the June 1993 election.

Kudirat was murdered in 1996.

Al-Mustapha  was freed this morning by the Lagos Division of the Appeal Court.

He  was sentenced to death last year over the matter.

National Mirror