/ 29 November 2000

NIGERIA’S ABACHA ‘BOMBED OPPONENTS’

AGENTS of late Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha were behind a bombing in 1996 used to kill and discredit the opposition, a retired senior policeman said this week. Security agents planted a car bomb which killed the security chief of Lagos airport security and then arrested opposition leaders, including former finance minister Olu Falae and militant leader Frederick Fasheun, Abubakar Tsav told a hearing into human rights abuses. – AFP