Justice at last for my mum – Kudirat’s daughter

 A daughter of the late Kudirat Abiola, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, has hailed the ruling of the Lagos High Court that sentenced Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan to death for the killing of her mother.

 Abiola-Costello, in three short sentences summed up her feeling on her wall on social network, Facebook: “God doesn’t sleep. Justice for my mum at last. So happy.”

 Her reaction came less than two hours after the Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere sentenced to death Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, and Shofolahan, one of the domestic aides of Kudirat.

 Barnabas Jabila, popularly known as Sergeant Rogers, was the government witness in the case.

 Jabila was the head of the Strike Force during Abacha’s reign and he told the court that Al-Mustapha and Shofolahan were part of the group that plotted the death of Kudirat on June 4, 1996.

 Kudirat’s husband, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, won the June 12, 1993 election, which was annulled by the regime of former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, with the support of Abacha.

 It was during the struggle to actualise the mandate that Kudirat was shot dead.

 This was during Abacha’s reign.

 Abiola also died in controversial circumstances in detention.