VIDEO: Obasanjo Had A killer Squad As President — Former Associate
VIDEO: Obasanjo Had A killer Squad As President — Former Associate
A former associate of ex-President
Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr. Richard Odusanya, on Saturday alleged that the
former chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of
Trustees was in charge of a killer squad that was formed under the
military regime of late Gen. Sani Abacha.
Odusanya reportedly worked behind the scenes when Obasanjo was in power.
In
a live interview, with an online news portal, Sahara Reporters,
Odusanya alleged that the former President lodged the killer squad at a
State Security Service headquarters, known as ‘Yellow House.’
He
appeared on the programme alongside Mr. Segun Seriki, a PDP member in
Ogun State and a member of the House of Representatives in the Third
Republic, under the Social Democratic Party.
According to
Odusanya, the squad was used for political assassinations and was
responsible for the unresolved killings of politicians under Obasanjo’s
administration.
He further alleged that Obasanjo knew about the
murder of the former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the
Federation, Chief Bola Ige, and a South-South politician, Chief Harry
Marshall.
Odusanya said, “I believe that a killer squad created
during the Abacha regime was kept by Obasanjo and housed at SSS
headquarters, known as Yellow House, and was used for political
assassinations.”
Explaining Obasanjo’s alleged link with Ige’s
death, Odusanya said, “The night Chief Bola Ige was assassinated, a top
PDP member confided in me that Obasanjo told him Bola Ige was down.”
Concerning the murder of Marshall, he said, “I also took a gift to Marshall and he was assassinated just a few weeks later.”
Odusanya
also alleged that the ex-president benefitted from an account with the
defunct Trans-International Bank and that from the funds in the account,
Obasanjo, asked him to deliver a Peugeot 607 and the sum of N500,000 to
a woman (name withheld).
When contacted for Obasanjo’s comments,
his Chief of Staff, Mr. Victor Durodola, said his boss was not available
to react to the allegations.
He challenged those who made the allegations to come out with their evidence.
Durodola
said, “The former president is not available. Therefore, he is not in a
position to respond to the allegations. However, my personal comment is
that these are people who indulge in blackmail.
“Why are they using online television? They should come to Channels, AIT, or NTA; these are television stations that are known.
“Definitely,
that is not Obasanjo’s character they are describing and everybody
knows that. Of all the military rulers, the issue of killer squad cannot
be attributed to him. That was not his style. He is not around now but I
doubt if he would even give it any attention whatsoever.
He stressed that the ex-president could not have been responsible for the unresolved killings under his administration.
He further argued that Obasanjo had no reason to be involved in Ige’s assassination.
“We
would like to see it (the interview) but these are issues you know
cannot be possible. The killings were unresolved, yes, but you know that
nobody could have attributed that to him. He would kill his minister
for what? So that he (Obasanjo) could be minister?” Durodola said.
Another Obasanjo aide, Vitalis Ortese, told one of our correspondents on the telephone that the allegation was a non-issue.
He said, “I don’t know them. Let them prove the allegation. I don’t know any Segun Seriki or Richard Odusanya.”
Also
reacting to the allegations, Bola Ige’s eldest child, Mrs. Funsho
Adegbola, told SUNDAY PUNCH that her father’s killers are still alive.
Adegbola, a lawyer, called for the reopening of the Bola Ige murder case.
She
said, “I can’t put anything past them. I haven’t seen the interview. I
don’t know the content of the report but I can’t put anything past them.
I believe the people who killed my father – the foot soldiers and the
people who sent them – are alive. They are not people from Mars.
“A
murder case can go on for 30 years or more. If there is political will
and the government wants to show that people should pay for their
crimes, this can be done. The family can’t do anything about it because
it is the state versus the suspects. The family can’t sue; it is the
state that can take action.”
Ige, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was shot dead in his Ibadan home on December 23, 2001.
Following
a mass protest over the killing, the Federal Government had deployed
troops in the South-Western state to prevent a breakdown of law and
order.
While security agencies had arrested some suspects
allegedly involved in the murder, including the then deputy governor of
Osun State – Ige’s home state – Mr. Iyiola Omisore, they were however
discharged and acquitted.
Just like Ige, Marshall Harry, who was
the National Coordinator, South-South geopolitical zone of the All
Nigerian Peoples Party Presidential Campaign was murdered by at his
No,28 Karaye Close, Garki II, Abuja residence on March 5, 2003, barely a
month to the presidential election in which Obasanjo was re-elected.
The ANPP chieftain was said to have been killed in the presence of his daughter and his niece, Loliya Harry.
The
only security guard in the house, Mr. Polini Aniya, said the assailants
numbering about five forced their way into the ANPP chieftain’s
residence around 3am.
The ANPP, and it presidential candidate,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, had insisted that agents of the PDP and Federal
Government assassinated Harry.
At Harry’s burial ceremony, Buhari,
alleged that in its desperation to rig itself into power, the
PDP-controlled Federal Government bankrolled assassins to eliminate
political opponents.
After the incident, the police arrested four suspects in connection with the murder.
However,
after seven years in detention, the accused standing trial for the
murder were discharged and acquitted by an Abuja High Court.
The court cited lack of enough evidence to sustain the charge against them.
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