Death by Hanging: Al-Mustapha, Shofolahan file Appeal
By News Desk January 31, 2012
Al-Mustapha after one of the court hearings
The former Chief Security Officer to late Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has appealed the verdict of the Lagos High court which sentenced him to death by hanging.
In the notice of appeal filed today, Al-Mustapha said the death sentence hanged on him by the lower court was unwarranted, unreasonable and a manifestation of miscarriage of justice.
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the appeal.
Al-Mustapha is asking the Lagos division of the Court of Appeal to entertain the appeal, set aside the judgment and discharge him of the counts charge of conspiracy and murder.
The notice of appeal which was filed by their Counsel, Barrister Olalekan Ojo, states that Al-Mustapha and Shofolahan are of the view that Justice Mojisola Dada erred in law by arriving at the conclusion that they conspired to kill Alhaja Kudirat on June 4, 1996.
They also faulted the judge in the treatment of the contradictory statements of Barnabas Jabila (aka Sgt. Rogers) and Mohammed Abdul, the reliance on the testimony of Dr. Ore Falomo on the bullet extracted from Late Kudirat, and the rejection of portions of Jabila’s testimony which they felt favoured them and applying only areas which did not favour them.
However, Sofolahan said he will be able to prove that he was never a protocol officer to the late Kudirat Abiola.
Earlier …
The embattled former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamzat Al-Mustapha and a protocol officer in the MKO Abiola campaign organisation, Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan, were at the Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, sentenced to death by hanging for the conspiracy to murder and murder charge preferred against them.
Justice Mojisala Dada of Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere delivered the judgment Monday afternoon (January 30, 2012).
Written by News Desk
on Jan 31 2012 Filed under Featured, In the News, Nigeria.
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i think dat our law did not crucify again what hapen?
Appeal court will soon have work 2 do coz as cso during militry did his official duty.
This judgement i think it is right bt at the wrong tym… Nigeria is insecure and this may worsen d country…
If the country will worsen, so be it. Justice delayed is justice denied. A child born in 1996 is already getting close to becoming an adult. Why is this case dragging for so long? Murderers live in largese under pseudo-detention.
If they have been sentenced, any appeal should be heard speedily. I do not put it beyond Mustafa and IBB to be engineering the choas in Nigeria to try and derail this judgement in the first place.
kulu nafsin shhaikotil maot………….Al-mustapha R.I.P
kulu nafsin shhhaikoti limaoti……………….R.I.P
ol dis s bulshit! Many v don worse nd stil breathin. Mr president, beware of d nxt troubles coz dia r stil unsolve 1nce n ur drawer.
@Badamasi Haruna Adamu , nothing will happen, let him face the law.
he dat kil wit d sword wil die by d sword……………may ur soul rest in d bosom of its senders…………
uuummmmmm,na today,dey shud just live mustafa,he was only discharging his duties them,bt shud be jailed and not hung
There is do and there is over-do. Discharging duties ke. So if he had been told to shoot his mother would he have “discharged his duty?” I hope you are not one of his benefactors.
wat goes around comes around
why did it take this long?13 years!
Well Mustapha may be a villain that he is , but he remains undaunted and unshaken. May God actually forgive him.He carried his brief beyond imagination.
Until the crack of doom, their death sentences stand. Nothing will happen as long as the law takes it course.
time to end this nightmare of a judicial macabre dance
time to end this nightmare of a judicial macabre dance
time to end this nightmare of a judicial macabre dance