It has been linked to Sir Emeka Offor a Nigerian businessman associated with a former military ruler General Sani Abacha and with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and a business associate of his Marc Wabara who has been investigated by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the misuse of US$56 million of signature bonuses...
They managed to push Shell off their land by mostly non-violent means but Saro-Wiwa and thousands of others paid with their lives when the then dictator General Sani Abacha established a barracks in Ogoni carried out reprisals against Mosop and convened a kangaroo court which sentenced Saro-Wiwa and eight other leaders to death (AC Vol 36 No 23)...
Some turned to politics after the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha who died in 1998...
Halliburton and its partners negotiated the corrupt payments with the military regime of General Sani Abacha whose regime stole over $4 bn...
5 billion in oil surplus during the 1990 Gulf War and annulled the 1993 elections frustrating a democratic transition and ushering in Sani Abacha’s destructive junta...
The Washington publication Foreign Policy last week described him as the UN’s ‘favourite dictator-whisperer’ and noted that as Foreign Minister to the late Nigerian ruler Sani Abacha he knew how to talk to dictators...
Sani Abacha’s regime; prior to this he was Ambassador to Moscow...
Sani Abacha's in 1993 were palace coups orchestrated by senior officers...
He spent much of the 1990s in exile during General Sani Abacha's regime but Mark returned to work when his old friend General Olusegun Obasanjo emerged as President in 1999...
The conviction in a Swiss Court on 19 November of Abba Abacha son of former military leader General Sani Abacha for participating in a criminal organisation together with the confiscation of US$350 million in assets stolen from Nigeria provide important clues to the corruption linked to the $6 billion Bonny Island gas scheme according to legal experts in Geneva...
