Kudirat Abiola’s Children Revisit Her Murder Case, Sue FG

Children of late Mrs Kudirat Abiola, wife of Chief MKO Abiola, have dragged the Federal Government before the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Abuja over the killing of their mother.

The suit marked ECW/CCJ/APP/62/2022 was filed on Tuesday by their lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN).

On June 4, 1996, Mrs. Abiola was fatally shot while driving in the Oregun neighborhood of Lagos. At the time, she was spearheading the campaign for her husband’s unconditional release from prison after he had proclaimed himself president based on the results of the invalidated election.

Falana recalled that Sergeant Barnabas Jabila (a.k.a. Sergeant Rogers), a member of the killer squad set up by the then military junta confessed during a sitting of the Oputa panel in Lagos on December 8, 2000, that he shot Mrs Abiola dead and attempted to kill the late Senator Abraham Adesanya and Alex Ibru by shooting them on the instructions of the Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security Officer of General Sani Abacha, from November 1993 to June 1998.

He said, “the killing of Mrs Kudirat Abiola by the armed agents of the defendant is illegal and a violation of her human rights to life and dignity.”

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The reliefs being sought include “an order directing the defendant to charge Sergeant Barnabas Jebila (a.k.a. Rogers) Mohammed Abdul (a.k.a Katako) and Aminu Mohammed with murder for the brutal killing of Mrs Kudirat Abiola in Lagos on June 4, 1996.

“An order directing the defendant to pay the sum of $10 million to the applicants as compensation for the unlawful killing of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola.”