Yar’Adua died in the Abakaliki Prisons while serving his term.
1995 ‘coup’: How Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Gwadabe were maltreated — Ex-EFCC chairman.
A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri has given a fresh insight into the 1995 alleged coup during the Gen. Sani Abacha regime.
Yar’Adua died in the Abakaliki Prisons while serving his term.
The former EFCC boss in her newly released memoir Farida Waziri: One Step Ahead recalls how she and a former Chief of Staff,...
The book is about her life as a spy, detective and anti-graft czar. She said when she complained to a former Inspector-General of Police, the
She described a former head of Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), Col. Frank Omenka as a psychopath who...
The extracts read in part: “After 1976, my view about coup d’états was conservative. A coup, whether bloody or not, is a piece of a nasty conundrum and I’d rather ponder about it from a safe distance.
”I was appointed into the legal team that was to work with the Special Investigative Panel (SIP) on the trial of the suspected coup plotters.
“The SIP was to convene at Alexander Avenue in lkoyi.
”Ikoyi was a quiet, beautiful suburb of Lagos with tree-lined...
”Later, I realised only the junior suspects remained there. The panel commenced sitting, and work began in earnest.
”Some took place in the reconstructed Boys Quarters.
”I always declined. “Given the political climate at the time, we knew our task was a delicate one from the outset. An air of palpable paranoia hung over the proceedings, particularly,...
”But the lesson was passed. “We kept to ourselves for fear of being implicated.
“However, I broke my own rule. I couldn’t help but sympathise with a few of the suspects. For instance, Chris Anyanwu was a friend, a popular journalist, editor and publisher (and...
”Truth, I thought, always holds a glimmer of hope. “I also knew Colonel Lawan Gwadabe.
”For some unfounded reasons, his interrogators had the conviction that he was involved in the coup plot, and..
”Though held on the premises, he was frequently taken out to undisclosed locations for torture. “On one occasion, he was taken out early in the morning.
“Upon orders from above, he was sent to undergo physiotherapy before his next interrogation could begin. On another occasion, they administered the so-called “truth pills” on him and the drug triggered
”The process came to a forced stop as they made frantic efforts to resuscitate him. They could not bear the thought of him dying because their mandate was to extract a confession.
“They claimed to have reliable intelligence that “what Colonel Gwadabe cherished most in this world is his wife.”
“What a diabolical suggestion! I was seized by righteous indignation. It was clear by then to other dispassionate observers and me that Colonel Gwadabe was falsely implicated for reasons other than
“Now, they were suggesting giving the brutish Colonel Omenka the discretion to interrogate (a euphemism for torture) Gwadabe’s wife to coerce a confession out of the man. “Gentlemen, we cannot stoop this low,” I protested.
“Secondly, the soldier knows his wife would be too terrified and would do anything within her power to prevent his involvement.
“They do find out just like any other member of the public, from the early morning broadcast and on the pages of the newspapers.
” Mercifully, there was a unanimous agreement. The idea was dropped.” She added that the accuser given a script to implicate a former Chief of Staff, Supreme...
“He was Chief of Staff, Supreme Military Council when General Obasanjo was head of state from 1976 to 1979. He was brought in looking unsettled. I studied him through the one-way glass window.
“When I had the opportunity, I entered the room and politely said to him, “Sir, why are you doing this to yourself? It seems smoking is not good for your health.”
“If I were in your shoes, I would be praying,” I responded. “As an observer of most of the SIP sittings during the trial of General Yar’Adua, I had the conviction that he was falsely implicated.
“For example, the chief accuser who claimed he attended the coup meeting in Yar’Adua’s lkoyi home couldn’t identify the house when driven around the neighbourhood.
“Caught in a web of lies, he later confessed that an SSS operative gave him a written report,
“When completed, burn the book,” that was the instruction according to him. We found the book hidden in the ceiling of his home. The accuser was handcuffed and subsequently tried.
General Yar’Adua’s indictment
They sat in subdued silence. I was so upset for this blatant interference with judicial due process that I dropped the file...
I went home and told Ajuji, my husband, what happened. Just be careful was all he said. That was hardly satisfactory to me. “I headed to the Force Headquarters to complain to the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomasie.
Sadly, he died in prison.” She described Obasanjo’s appearance before the SIP as the “most climatic
She said: “The most climatic experience of the whole affair, for me, was my encounter with General Olusegun Obasanjo. When rumours circulated that the former Head of State was in custody as one of the conspirators, those of us
“We all knew Obasanjo for his outstanding qualifications. He is a post-colonial senior officer of the Nigerian Army, a hero of the Nigerian Civil War with the 3rd Marine Commandos.
Above all, he is a former Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
Second, most of the officers with whom he allegedly conspired were not even commissioned into the Nigerian
We had mixed emotions of excitement, anticipation and fear.
As I mentioned earlier, Gen Yar’Adua was nervous and looked troubled and sometimes angry.
I found his reaction intriguing. He endured the interrogations with the same character with which he entered the premises.
We marveled at his brilliance, intelligence and forensic skills.
Without the aid of notes or any other external props, he defended himself, reeling off facts, figures, dates, appointment schedules & myriad of other details.
At the end of the session, General Dambazau and I looked at each other and in unison concurred, “This man is
There was a delay in getting it to him. He was in a great deal of discomfort as his blood sugar level began to drop.
I missed the message. Another officer pulled me aside and cautioned me about getting involved with the detainees, to
What if you prepare food for him & something happens? “The legal team ultimately sentenced Gen Obasanjo to death; sentence was commuted to 30 years in prison; & the transitional government of Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar pardoned and released him from jail.
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