OPUTA PANEL: Heated Cross-Examination Of Maj. Aliyu By Femi Falana Over MKO Abiola's Death

gynecologist? I know my lord. Do you know that he treated Chiva Bella? before you took charge of his affairs he was the one who treated him, do you know that I am not aware of that, my lord, they complained to you, chifabella, that yakuzai was the one who treated him, regardless, he did not tell me now Who was in charge of your medical care? Then during the month you were in charge, who was in China, you don't know, they didn't give me anything and now I don't know. I know, no doctor treated Abella for the woman, to your knowledge, the witness heard you in chief .

Yes, you were fluent and communicative. Yes, now they are interrogating you. Sometimes you laugh. I don't know what amused you and you don't remember it. He literally said I don't know, I don't remember, please help us, yes mother, my lord, you see, actually, this role is not supposed to be for cso, this mother, this elective was supposed to be handled by the police and he was supposed to be the head of intelligence yes my lord i will know someone who was there before you yes man 1 and we can evaluate him yes don't tell me he is so dumb they shouldn't have put him there please help us please Please help us make your life.

Yes, my lord, who was the doctor in charge of Chifa Bella between June 8 and July 7, do you know why on the seventh you called Dr. Wily when I was in emergency? Yes, who was the doctor who treated him? I don't know. You don't know if ok now if you said that and this was on the fifth of July yes yes I have visited chifa bella in the company of the cgs then yes my lord photographs were taken with him that correct yes my lord those photographs were printed in Abuja here they are the sisters of the government is that, as far as you know, my lord did not know that those photographs were published in the newspapers.

I have also seen them in the newspapers, my lord, so you do not know that they were published in the newspapers. I did not know once, you know. of any incident where a detainee in nigeria was photographed he was asked to pose for a photograph while in detention do you know of an incident no my lord no man now the cgs was appointed when to your knowledge i can remember the exact date in which the head of state jen abubakar was appointed out of the state when on June 9 June 9 yes, when was his deputy appointed? I don't remember the exact date, but it is somewhere in June, sometimes in June it was.

I am correct and say that he was appointed on June 10. Sorry, June 10. I don't remember the exact date. Well, between the time he was appointed and July 7th, I told you it was a period of approximately. three weeks you cannot remember my lord I cannot remember if he was appointed on the seventh of July, to the best of his knowledge, the capacity was that the day he was appointed no, he was not appointed that day where did he appear before that date? because? He asked to ask for a key that day, where was his office between the time of his appointment and the day of the incident, my sir, I don't know, you don't know, yes, my sir, thank you very much, so he wasn't reporting in the villa, as far as you know, he wasn't. denouncing the villain he was denouncing.

Sometimes I see him listen in his office, yes, so I remember that he traveled to go deliver his office very well and once or twice with the CNC, yes, what. Did he say you remember you remember something now yes my lord now let's listen to what you remember that's what I remembered sir he came to the office he came to cnc to see him at the census office most of the time during the census office at the conference? room upstairs, so he was running his office from the conference room or the CNC office, what he wants this committee to believe is that it is correct, he did not go to his own office, yes my lord, he did not go to his own office. he has not taken over his position, so yes, you see where I am going, is this sadok's withdrawal at the material moment, do you understand me so that I can reassure you, yes, my lord, I am not accusing you of having mother chi fabela .

What we are trying to find out is who did what at what time in the interest of justice and truth now the chief of the general staff called him on the radio he called him on the phone is that correct on the seventh no, my lord, who will gave the information about the servant that the key to his office was needed who, his own security chief, his own security officer, yes, what's his name, uh, afternoon commander, Matthew, yes, he didn't do it for me , What did? They talked on the radio and called the dog to come open his office. yes, that's what happened that day yes, my lord, yes, now on that date the zadok left, no one tried the tea before chifa bella drank it. no one that you know yes, no one now, are you aware that in your experience that food, water and whatever it is intended for?

Detainees are usually tested even if relatives bring food or whatever is the normal practice, you know I don't know? I am not saying to write now yes, my lord, the service chiefs at the material time in different parts of the country. yes my lord, under the opposition somewhere in lagos salmonella, another is correct somewhere in lagos, somewhere in abuja, yes, on the 7th of july, all services were in abuja, as far as you know As far as you know, yes, he said they met, I put together they were waiting for the report of F

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, that's why they were illegal, as far as you know, I mean, in Abuja, no, they should have a state council meeting, They don't share the meeting like this, are they members of the state council?

As far as you know, the heads of service, as far as you know, were them, where yes, no, governors, the cnc are members of the council of state under military command, my lord, if I request that you limit me to my function, then I will to confirm it. what he knew because he was the head of security for the head of state if you don't know just say you don't know do you know that the service chiefs were not sacred members? What did he say she directed? He said he wants to be confined to what he knows what he knows not what I know how much you know nothing is okay confirming now you don't know that the service chiefs were not members of the state council you don't know that is not my job my lord that It's not your job well now let's go to your job you said that the chief of staff general vice admiral I mean he came to the clinic asura was going to collapse but to avoid embarrassment in front of the members of the American delegation you persuaded him to leave is that Right, my lord didn't know what happened, I didn't say he was going to collapse, what he was going to do, but he looked confused and at that stage I don't want to ask him to show a bad image of the nation. yes,

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had not died at that time no, my lord, yes, now when you say that you did not trust zadok, yes, my lord, you left abiola's life in sadok's hands with checks and balances, my lord, yes, but when it came to the question of money. defeat assignment yes, that's over, you didn't trust him in that regard yes, mother on the other side, I'll tell you if I can digress here yes, he doesn't have the powers to elect the head of that house without the CEO know it and the co physically deployed on the ground who is in charge of the place so if they don't go they will just know him and allow him and be with him and he will come out yeah now before they sent zadok. manager for two years between 1996 and 1998.

Yes, my lord, he was already accused of participating in arms trafficking and an illegal murder of citizens of this country, to the best of his knowledge, that is correct, yes, my lord, then he put a beautiful In the hands of a murderer it is like this, right, my lord and I learned this information after he left, the holy news was deleted normally, the information flows, so you can't remember who gave you the information, so that you can't, the sources will be protected now, you know that? any incident is fine, now let's say that in the village no one could arrest anyone in the village yes sir, do you want this honorable commission to believe that even those who were accused of murdering innocent citizens in the city, if they were nasser Were they immune from arrest? and the persecution is that correct depending on the person in the church yes but when you were in charge that dog was protected I didn't know I was having that case and the police didn't ask me if but before I came I found out that the evil I wrote letters requesting You know, Rojas, I know, not only was he not with you, he was, don't you know that I was so like that, I like to have killed certain people that I didn't know that he has confessed before this commission in Lagos that it was him? he killed kudura, i know, i don't know, it wasn't his confession, i will find out about it or after we leave office, but during the reign of general bashar, as far as you know, yes, there were cases reported in the newspapers, for sure that Muslim Major Mustafa was in charge of an extermination squad in Abuja, did you read about that?

I read it, my lord, but, to your knowledge, Saddam was on the beach. No, he was part of the police unit. My lord, yes, he was sent to handle that situation with the BG. yes, my lord, so you knew he was a murderer, I didn't know he was a murderer, okay, I met him as a policeman after I left Astro Rock, then you knew that yes, my lord, okay, now let's talk to this American delegation. yes my sir susan rice informed the family according to his evidence in chief after jen abubakar she was along with the cnc when he broke the news today yes after the season had broken the news yes my last attempt to convince the family that there was no foul play she connected with you the main evidence my lord is asleep she condemned she gave her condolences to the family and passed the normal jokes and did not say that there was no foul play she did not say that now you said that he is asleep you are now withdrawing that I am going to withdraw it okay, now you said that the function of the cso was to protect the head of state yes, my lord, how come you were collecting cars and giving some of them to the president, to the vice president and the rest?

That part of their function, my lord, the town is all part of the town, so they are part of the functions of the cso. Yes, my lord and I also only give it to the president-elect, so he was the president-elect and the president had to cut him which one is the president's office now, to your knowledge, during the month it was in charge of a beautiful, yes, my lord, no one was in charge of you tasting your food or drink. Do you know anyone? He doesn't see anyone. Can you remember that one there was no one, no one, that's all for him?