Al-Mustapha says Obj is a liar

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, says he would not be silent and allow former President Olusegun Obasanjo make unfounded allegations against him.

He was speaking against the backdrop of allegation made by Obasanjo in his infamous 18-page letter that he (Al-Mustapha) was contracted to head a killer squad of 1, 000 snipers for President Goodluck Jonathan, ahead of the 2015 general elections.

Speaking with newsmen in Lagos on Monday, the former CSO said there was no truth in the allegation.
He therefore challenged the former president to a public debate, to substantiate his claims.

He also debunked insinuations that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan interfered with court process to facilitate his release from prisons, to enable him (Al-Mustapha) help train the ‘killer squad’ or procure Jonathan’s success in the North during the last election.

Al-Mustapha said ab initio, he had no case to answer but for the plots of his persecutors to see him eliminated because he stepped on their toes while he served as the CSO to the late Head of State, Sanni Abacha.

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He said, “On the allegation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that I was contracted by the Jonathan administration to train 1,000 snipers, I have challenged him to an open debate to substantiate his allegations.

“Obasanjo cannot go about creating an allegation that is totally false. If that assertion of Obasanjo was true, now that President Muhammadu Buhari was in power, now that the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA is being x-rayed, now that those who collected money from that office are being x-rayed by different committees, that allegation of Obasanjo would have come to fore.

“Nobody contracted me to catch 1, 000 mosquitoes under the Jonathan administration, not to talk of human beings. I am Al-Mustapha, I have my background away from the propaganda peddled by the likes of Obasanjo.

“Obasanjo has had his day, I am doing my investigation, and I have discovered so many things as to what gave him (Obasanjo) that input to have made such allegation then. I have it. I will release it very soon and that is why I have challenged him to an open debate.

“Obasanjo is my senior militarily, he was a former Military Head of State in this country, but when issues of law and rights of man are being discussed, definitely equality comes to the fore. You can’t put an allegation against your junior because you are a senior, and you believe the junior would keep quiet. No, I would not. That would amount to ignorance. I am not ignorant about our laws.

“I challenge Obasanjo to an open debate, so that he can substantiate his allegations before the whole world, but he is yet to oblige the challenge. Thank God today, a new government is here, where he (Obasanjo) can bring up the issue again, requesting it to be scrutinised, and if there is any contract between President Jonathan and I, to catch one single mosquito, I want to say that I am guilty and want to be tried.”

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