Family urges FG to provide security for Al-Mustapha

Following the shocking revelations by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, ex-security adviser to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, before a Lagos court implicating former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar in the death of Sani Abacha and MKO Abiola, Al-Mustapha’s family yesterday pleaded with President Goodluck Jonathan to beef-up security around him because his “life is now in danger.”

Addressing newsmen in Kano over Al-Mustapha’s revelations, the family spokesman and Al-Mustapha’s younger brother, Alhaji Hadi Al-Mustapha said some members of the family had received  series of text massages threatening that Al-Mustapha’s “life is in danger and that anything may happen to him soon.”

“We have received several text massages warning us to call Al-Mustapha to order because his health and life is now in danger; and this has become a source of great worry to us as well as everybody around us because we don’t know what will happen to him and who are those people threatening us with such text messages”, he said.

Last month, according to Hadi, they had received similar text messages informing them that Al-Mustapha was dead and other messages said he would soon die.

Hadi expressed regret that the ongoing trail of his elder brother had rather turned to a persecution and not a prosecution because all those that alleged Al-Mustapha was fully behind the murder of Kudirat Abiola had all gone back to retract their earlier testimonies.

Sergeant Barnabas and others, according to him, had told an appeal court that they were compelled and seriously beaten to implicate Al-Mustapha, and this was to his thinking the reason why others were released from prisons. “Then why is it that my brother is allowed to remain in prison; we demand for justice and for now, we want good security be provided for him because anything can happen”, he said.

Al-Mustapha’s family also said it was high time the federal government intervened in the case by bringing it to an end because Al-Mustapha has seriously suffered and that he should be released just like others to enjoy his freedom.