Sani Abacha

Sani Abacha (September 20th 1943 - June 8th 1998) was a Général Nigerian which was with the head of the military Dictature of its country of 1993 with 1998.

Abacha and its government were sadly made know on November 10th, 1995 at the time of the assassination of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other leaders of the community Ogoni in the Delta of Niger.

Of origin kanouri, born with Kano, in medium haoussa, in the north of Nigeria, Sani Abacha College of military formation of Zaria in 1963 is graduate and becomes captain in 1967. It is one of the main actors of the military putsches against the civil president Shehu Shagari (1983) and the general Muhammad Buhari (1985) who bring the general Ibrahim Babangida to the capacity, and of which there will remain an invaluable collaborator. On Friday, August 27, 1993, when Babangida resigns after having cancelled the results of a democratic presidential election, which the civil candidate Moshood Abiola had left victorious, Abacha is named Minister for the Defense of a transition government installed by Babangida.

In November 1993, Abacha proclaims Head of the State, removes all the democratic institutions and replaces many civil civils servant by military chiefs. It names a provisional Government council made up primarily of generals and police officers, which must supervise a federal Executive council, made up of civilians in sight.

In January 1994, Abacha presents a budget by which it gives up the economic reforms implemented in 1986, which makes impossible a new agreement with the Fonds international currency (the IMF). In 1994, the increase in the foreign debt, the weakness of the industrial production and an autocratic capacity poke the popular resentment. Abacha reacts by revealing the details of its program of political transition, but the constitutional conference behavior in May is largely boycotted by the groups favorable to the democracy, and Abacha prohibits any nongovernmental political activity. In June, Abiola proclaims president and it is stopped for treason. The disorders intensify, particularly in Lagos, and the workmen of the oil sector start a strike to obtain the release of Abiola. Strikes and civil disobedience paralyze the south, while north, stronghold of the soldiers, show his disaffection for the mode.

In 1995, the hanging of the writer Ken Saro Wiwa and of eight other militants ogoni opposed to the oil policy followed in the area, is denounced by the Nobel Prize of literature Wole Soyinka, involving the diplomatic insulation of Nigeria. Whereas the country sinks in misery and corruption, Abacha dies of an heart attack (June 7th, 1998), followed death, one month later, in prison, of that of Abiola. The general Abdulsalami Abubakar, who succeeded Abacha, then commits himself giving the capacity in 1999 to a democratically elected mode.

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