By Dan Amor
Sunday June
8, 2014 indubitably marked the sixteenth anniversary of the death of General
Sani Abacha, Nigeria ’s most
treacherous tyrant and who ranked with Agathocles and Dionysus I of Sicily
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It is true that the degree of
cruelty and loathsome human vulgarity that the Abacha era epitomized is already
fading into the background because of the mundane and short character of the
human memory. But his timely exit ought to have been marked by Nigerians just
as the United Nations marks the end of the Second World War not only for
posterity but also as a thanksgiving to God for extricating us from such epoch
of human misery.
