Victims of the 1995 phantom coup plot saga are still groaning in pains over the torture meted out to them by the regime of late despot, General Sani Abacha.
Colonel Gabriel Adetunji Ajayi (Rtd), a former Quarter Master General, Lagos Garrison Command, who is also one of the victims, recently recounted their ordeal to NewsBreakng. “There was neither a coup nor an attempted one in 1995 but an ungodly design by the then government to silence perceived opposition voices in and outside the military,” he said.
After 22 years, they are still appealing to the Federal government of the day to implement the recommendations contained in the Report of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission headed by late retired Supreme Court Judge, Mr. Justice Chukwudifu Oputa (JSC).
The Colonel also hinted that the coup “which never existed”, was also a ploy than to divert attention from the growing agitation and dissension over the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election believed to have been won fair and square by the late business Mogul and philanthropist, Moshood Abiola.