June 8,2010, will be exactly 12years that Almighty Allah deemed it fit to take back the life of Gen. Sani Abacha.
The death of General Abacha is a great lost not only to his family, but to the entire nation-because he was a great patriot and a brave general who dedicated himself to the service of his country. Abacha had a vision, he meant well for Nigeria, and we never had a peaceful president like him. History will always remember general Abacha as a hero who did his best for his country. We pray to Almighty Allah to continue to give the family, friends and well wishers the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable lost.
We also pray that your gentle soul shall continue to abode in aljanna firdaus.
Abacha we are still with you in spirit and we love you, but God loves you more.
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Fourteen years After: Abacha, corruption and the untidy lies
Granted that the late Nigeria’s head of state, General Abacha has been painted in every shade of indecency from dictatorship, treasury looting to any form of real or imaginary criminality on the Nigerian nation, the simple fact that the dead do not speak has even made him look like the worst leader Nigeria would ever have. Unfortunately, many objective followers of Nigeria’s unfolding history are documenting events and statistics that tell a different story. Almost ten years after Olusegun Obasanjo as President of Nigeria initiated the fight on the late General Abacha and his household, many contradictions to the earlier postulations on the late General Abacha’s reign have emerged. The fact on ground is that Nigeria appears to be worse off in almost all areas that the late General has been accused of impropriety perhaps except the freedom of speech that should naturally come with a democratic setting against a military regime that is usually associated with command and obey. In Nigeria, looting has being elevated to unimaginary proportions by most office holders. Even those that introduced the Abacha’s looting saga to the public domain and Nigerian lexicon have been recorded as the worst treasury plunderers during their stay in public office after the demise of General Abacha but for the very reality that they are still alive. It is very sad that many people have kept mute except the radical Colonel Umar through his well publicized research “How Obasanjo and Co. looted Nigeria in 8 years”, yet no action by has been taken either the government or even the media, so called watchers of the society probably because the government of the day is still busy prosecuting the children of a dead man or it lacks courage to dare the living. Its fourteen years since General Sani Abacha died yet nothing seems to have changed for the better and corruption within the Nigerian leadership has tremendously increased much more than it was in Abacha years.
Akpan Effiong
Abuja, Nigeria
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