One more appointee of President Muhammadu
Buhari has drawn the attention of the media – Colonel Hamid Ali (rtd).
His biography has many interesting facts.
Hamid Ali was chosen by the Abacha regime as a member of the kangaroo
tribunal that sentenced the famous environmentalist and minority rights
activist Ken Saro-Wiwa to death by hanging.
The new comptroller general of customs, Colonel Ali was military administrator of Kaduna state from 1996 to 1998 under the dictatorial regime of the late General Sani Abacha.
Reacting to the cold-blooded murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni locals, Col Ali said he had no shame over his role in the judicial process that led to Saro-Wiwa’s execution.
The Abacha government set up a special tribunal led by Justice
Ibrahim Auta together with the Kaduna-based prosecutor Joseph Bodunrin
Daudu after falsely accusing Saro-Wiwa of orchestrating the death of
four Ogoni elders.
Following a long detention, abuse, torture and pressure on Wiwa’s lawyers by the Abacha regime, the board sentenced Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists to death by hanging for a crime they never committed.
Saro-Wiwa was defended by the late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, and by Femi Falana.
Fawehinmi and his team were refused access to the tribunal and deprived of the right to talk with the defendants. Auta refused without all motions and applications for adjournment in a case involving capital offences.
The Abacha government quickly ratified the tribunal’s decision and afterwards murdered Saro-Wiwa and the eight activists before the period allowed for an appeal had elapsed.
The hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and four other Ogoni elders led to Nigeria’s suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations, which lasted for over three years. Shell Petroleum Development Company later paid out $15.5 million as recompense over its role in cooperating with the Abacha administratin in human rights violations in the deaths of Saro-Wiwa and his kinsmen.
Buhari served in the Abacha government as de facto petroleum minister
in the role of chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund. Abacha’s despotic
regime was also one of the most corrupt, occasioned by brazen looting of
the treasury.
Hamid Ali is 77-years-old Buhari’s newly appointed head of customs.
Colonel Hamid Ali (Rtd)
The new comptroller general of customs, Colonel Ali was military administrator of Kaduna state from 1996 to 1998 under the dictatorial regime of the late General Sani Abacha.
Reacting to the cold-blooded murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni locals, Col Ali said he had no shame over his role in the judicial process that led to Saro-Wiwa’s execution.
Oronto Douglas, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) and Sam Amadi during the trial of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others.
Following a long detention, abuse, torture and pressure on Wiwa’s lawyers by the Abacha regime, the board sentenced Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists to death by hanging for a crime they never committed.
Saro-Wiwa was defended by the late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, and by Femi Falana.
Fawehinmi and his team were refused access to the tribunal and deprived of the right to talk with the defendants. Auta refused without all motions and applications for adjournment in a case involving capital offences.
The Abacha government quickly ratified the tribunal’s decision and afterwards murdered Saro-Wiwa and the eight activists before the period allowed for an appeal had elapsed.
The hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and four other Ogoni elders led to Nigeria’s suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations, which lasted for over three years. Shell Petroleum Development Company later paid out $15.5 million as recompense over its role in cooperating with the Abacha administratin in human rights violations in the deaths of Saro-Wiwa and his kinsmen.
Vigil on the 17th anniversary of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 4 other Ogoni elders.
Hamid Ali is 77-years-old Buhari’s newly appointed head of customs.
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