Al Mustapha opens up on his experience in prison, denies political ambitions

Former Chief Security Officer to the late Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has described Nigerian prisons as dens of torture.
Al-Mustapha, who regained his freedom yesterday after 14 years in detention opened up on his ordeal shortly after he was discharged and acquitted by the appellate court over the alleged murder of Kudiriat Abiola.
He said, “I stayed five years in Kuje and Kirikiri prisons and nine years from one prison to another. I suffered seriously at underground cells in Kuje and Kirikiri for five solid years.”
A visibly elated Al-Mustapha said, he never knew that there was such an arrangement of tormenting human beings in any Nigerian prison.
He decried the conditions in Nigerian prisons where he spent almost 14 years in solitary, including the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons in Lagos.
He further noted that it was difficult for poor Nigerians to get justice under the present judicial system in the country.
While thanking Almighty Allah that he was out of the prison alive, Al-Mustapha said he had forgiven everyone behind his incarceration.
He told Kano-based Freedom radio that he had decided to postpone his return to Kano as scheduled till today (Sunday) following the mammoth crowd that gathered around him in Lagos.
Mustapha however dissociated himself from the campaign posters decking the walls in some area of the FCT and some northern states linking him with a certain office.
He said that he has no hand in the campaign posters in Abuja and some northern states. According to him, “I remain a soldier and not a politician.”