A retired Nigerian Army Colonel and erstwhile friend to late military junta, Gen. Sani Abacha, at the weekend relived how he was sentenced to life imprisonment for suggesting the composition of an interim government to handover power to<<<READ FULL ARTICLE>>>
Col. Bello Fadile recounted his journey to imprisonment while celebrating the 25th anniversary of his release by the government of Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, recalling how he was on a three-day fasting period with some inmates when the news of his freedom was broken to him.
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Fadile who was an intelligence officer, was court martialled and jailed at the Argungu Prisons now called the Kebbi State Custodian Centre by Abacha whom he described as his friend and boss until March 4, 1999 when the government of Gen. Abubakar granted him pardon.
Speaking with select reporters ahead of the lunch of his book titled “Nine Lives: The Bello Fadile Memoirs”, the retired Colonel recalled how he heard taps on his cell window which came from a retired Army Warrant Officer that was working as a warder at the prisons at the early hours or that day, who turned out to be the bearer of the good news.
“I was court-martial and sentenced to life for advocating a non-violent composition of an interim government to replace the military government of a friend and boss, Abacha.
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“Twenty-five years ago, in the wee hours of March 4, 1999, I had a tap on my cell window. I got up and went closer. Then I saw the warder on duty, a retired Warrant Officer of the Nigerian Army now working for the Nigeria Prison Services. He said, ‘Oga you don free, congratulations sir, start packing your things, you are going home<<<READ FULL ARTICLE>>>
