This means that the governments of Abdulsalami and Obasanjo looted more...

There is a ruling in Islam that its members are not supposed to keep money in banks.

I'm so sure abacha swore to uphold this oat as a true Muslim that is why the grand commander of jihadist Islamic Fulani affairs today denies any evidence of the money

I never finish reading my Bible, na dis long thing I wan read dis early mormor..ok, we all know sey abacha loot and the money plenty wey everybody dey eye the Money

We are not interested in how fund leave the country, so far the economy was still okay then. All we wanna know is how the recovered money is spent and how can we get our share.

Al-Mustapha know more and I believe him, if this guy should talk, Nigeria would be on fire. But believe me, the money stole in this country in 1999-2007 is far more than this Abacha loot.

If dead could defend himself

Gen. Sani Abacha Was Largely Misunderstood
The painful death of Gen Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Ordinarily, twenty-one years is a long enough period for the living to forget the dead. But a lot of sentiments still trail Gen. Abacha’s name both in Nigeria and elsewhere. Why is it so? It is because the man had the infectious grin, the energy, the faithfulness, the shining confidence, the sagacity, the courage and the zest that leaped out of a background of solid patriotism hitherto unknown and yet to be rivaled in Nigeria. Therefore, to remember him now, twenty-one years after his untimely death, with the image of a living man in our hands, shows that Abacha is larger than life, in the memories, emotions, and minds of his fellow Nigerians. After death, the real Abacha is now the symbolic man, the figure about who have clustered the yearnings, the lofty ideals and the aspirations Nigerians have for themselves and their country.

Having worked himself up the hallowed cadre of the Nigerian ruling class as Head of State, Abacha, in his passion, concern and vulnerability, was one of the representative men of his generation. His personal quest for identity, understanding and power mirrored the turbulence, paradox and dream of mid-twentieth century Nigeria. He lived through a time of unusual turbulence in the history of the country, and he responded to that turbulence more directly and more sensitively than any other political leader of the era, at least in Africa. Gen. Abacha was equipped with certitudes of courage, faith and love for country- attributes that sustained him till death. But they were the premises, not the conclusions of his life. For he possessed, to an exceptional degree, what literary experts call “an experiencing nature”. History changed him, and had time permitted, he would have changed history. His relationship to his era makes him, unarguably, one who embodies the consciousness of an epoch, who perceives things in fresh light and new connections, who exhibits unsuspected possibilities of purpose and action to his contemporaries.

Indeed, Gen. Abacha never had the time to fulfill his own possibilities, which is why his memory haunts so many of us now. Because he wanted to get things done; because he was often impatient and combative; because he felt simply and cared deeply, he made his share of mistakes, and enemies. He was a romantic and also an idealist, and he was also prudent, expedient, demanding, fearless and ambitious. Yet the insights he brought to governance- insights earned in a labour of self-discipline and self-purgation that only death could stop- led him to see power not as an end in itself but as the means of redeeming the powerless. Abacha was to Nigeria what Charles de Gaule was to France: a man with military background but, who, ironically, brought uncommon composure and dignity to statecraft. This is not to say that military personnel possess exceptional leadership qualities. Far from it! Those ones only worked up themselves to become the tribunes of their generations. It only brings us to the incontrovertible fact that democracy is still preferred to the most benevolent military dictatorship anywhere, anytime. Abacha was indeed a diamond among stones. But because he was maligned and castigated by a section (Lagos/Ibadan axis) of the Nigerian Press due largely to political considerations, he became the most misunderstood of Nigerian leaders.

In fact, the emotional legacy left by Gen. Abacha is so intense in Nigeria, but it is yet deeper and even more fervent in the entire West African sub-region. This point is important and thus could be made with an antidote: since a man is not measured by what he did before he became a leader, or by what he said and did after he was a leader, but by what he did, and not by what he said while he was a leader, we can now comprehend the passionate veneration of Gen. Abacha’s memory. Today, we seek a sense of the man in order to understand the deep emotional response to the memory of the man. We know what happened and we cannot undo that knowledge. Even as his immediate friends and successors started destroying what he stood for soon after his painful exit, we cannot but get the record straight. But the meaning of that straightened record is inextricably involved in the meaning we also try each day to discern in the confusion of the living present. It is a tragic reality that those who thought to have upheld his enviable legacies have demonstrated a grand betrayal of what the man stood and died for. Could Abacha have built mansions, bought limousines, owned oil wells and own universities while in power? The answer to this poser is a loud NO!

The conditions of misery and inequality that troubled Abacha still persist among Nigerians while people in power remain untroubled. Despite his extremely emotional bent, Abacha’s youthful vigour and impressive grasp of the black man’s burden won for him national and international acclaim. His administration which lasted for about five (5) years was most memorable, leaving a 36-state structure for the country and achieving a leadership for Nigeria in Africa through a decisive foreign policy thrust that was basically Afrocentric, and a clearly defined anti-corruption war. Perhaps, the most concrete demonstration of this was his mobilisation of West African leadership to restore order in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Under his watch, Nigerian soldiers restored democracy to those West African countries. In 1996, Gen Abacha created a number of new states to give some marginalised people a sense of belonging: Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Gombe, Nasarawa and Zamfara.

An expression of his unrelenting crusade against corruption was accentuated in the setting up of the Anti-Failed Banks Tribunal and the National Deposit Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NDIC). Even though his actions had some unintended consequences, his anti-corruption campaign was not merely cosmetic. It was on the basis of the depth and spread of his anti-corruption campaign that analysts had a unanimous position that his attempt at sanitising the system was total. But not for his mature and courageous handling of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election crisis, Nigeria would have relapsed into another civil war. Despite the Afrocentricism of Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust under Gen. Abacha, Nigeria was not a big brother without a home, her impact was deeply felt in all the four corners of Africa. When Cameroon tried to annex part of the Nigerian territory in 1995, Abacha sent Nigerian troops to check that country’s egocentric maneuvering. Under him, the Nigerian economy was most stable throughout his years in power despite being branded a pariah state as a result of international conspiracy against Nigeria. Throughout Gen. Abacha’s five years in the saddle, Nigeria did not owe any external debt.



What people now mischievously refer to as “the Abacha loot” was the money the country kept in foreign banks deliberately to ward off the plot by the foreign powers to block our foreign reserve. This shows that Gen. Abacha was ahead of his time. He was a very trust-worthy man who never disappointed his friends. His composite love for Nigerians was legendary. Of all the military men who ruled Nigeria from 1976 to 1999, after the assassination of Gen. Murtala Muhammed: Olusegun Obasanjo, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, and Abdulsallami Abubakar, Abacha was the best in terms of managing the economy for the good of all Nigerians. His economic team led by Prof. Sam Aloku, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, Dr. Paul Ogwuma, and Chief Anthony Ani, remains the best till date.

Can there be any wonder, therefore, that Nigerians in their millions cannot fail to contemplate the shrew, practical, resourceful and often irritatingly dynamic leadership qualities of their only leader who came close to possessing the ennobling ethos of a national hero? It can be said emphatically that Nigerians can appreciate good things and love to celebrate a hero when they see one. The Nigerian intelligentsia including scholars, students in Nigeria and the world over still celebrate him. Which is why twenty one years after his untimely death, memories of Abacha’s pragmatic leadership still linger in their consciousness. It is as a result of the scarcity of men of Abacha’s latent qualities in leadership positions that Nigerians are yearning for him twenty one years after. But a time will surely come again when the most endowed nation in Africa will overcome its indifference to the degradation of its citizens. Only then can Gen. Abacha’s tall legacies be seen to have exemplary values.

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Al-Mustapha knows alot, no doubt.

One interesting thing about Abacha was that he never took any loan unlike these Gov'ts running to every country for loans. The military govts borrowed less and were able to complete projects without any delay.
It's sad that this govt keeps borrowing without any physical or economical evidence.

are we not tired of abacha's loot case,we've been on this for years without no major breakthrough

It's only in Nigeria that truth won't be spoken. I won't say more than that.

If people could still defend Jonathan's government and consider him a hero, then I'm not surprised Mustapha still considers Abacha a legend

Jonathan's government could steal a triple of Abacha's if God hadn't sent Buhari to oust him


Al-mustapha wants us to believe that the monies moved belonged to government and for government purposes.

Jonathan's government did exactly the same thing. For example, the Malabu oil deal. Despite the fact that Malabu oil deal was related to Abacha, wasn't it Jonathan that went ahead to run the scam deal using federal government account?

When Dasuki and Jonathan were sharing the $2 billion arms deal, did Olisa metuh and the rest not say it was National assignment, so they didn't need to know the source of the loot.

So what's the difference between Jonathan and Abacha and Obasanjo and Abdusalam ?

Hmmm

Rubbish.
You're not doing well Oga.

Yeah typical fulani epistle
It has to be the fault of other tribes
Abacha never stole

abacha was best head of state and presido naija ever had. too bad good things do not last. this is the only guy that made nigeria mony to have value. he was almost close to fixing the eonomy before he was taken out

And yet they say Abacha is not corrupt. All the problems were caused by GEJ

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr

Nice article

What is nice about this lies?

interesting read... After Obsanjo dies and cant defend himself we would suddenly start hearing facts about the $16billion power loan he also took, same with Buhari and the $22billion, atleast Abacha never borrowed a penny

It is a Western Propaganda game, they also sanctioned Jonathan because of gay right and crippled the fight against boko haram and when Jonathan attempted to smuggle money to buy arms in SouthAfrican black market, they hurriedly seized the money and the private jet

Abacha faced the stiffest sanctions ever worst than that of Iran and nothing was sold to Nigeria by any country affiliated to US, UK, but still he completed more projects in Abuja and Nigeria than all this Useless people we now have , I still wonder how he manages to ship out crude oil, sell it and get money to build our reserve, import drugs and needed commodity and still have PTF building project up and down

Abacha was prolly killed because of this money , and since Africans are criminals and western countries were even more crazier criminal, instead of repatriating the money once just like Obama did to Iran in paying them back their $450 million, Obasanjo hurriedely made a deal with the Abacha family to pay them $100 million USD in exchange for the $5billion traced to various accounts including that of Bagudu governor of Kebbi



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Ok

Abacha met $200 Million Dollars in foreign reserve and built it to $9billion in five years when fuel was $8/pb.

Waooo.... he tried

Hmmmmm!

IDIOTS

Re-looted funds. What a useless country but not totally useless @least can be used as a bad example to other nations