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So who who killed Kudirat Abiola?

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By Muyiwa Adetiba And so Major Hamza Al-Mustapha went home last week to a tumultuous welcome after 14 years of incarceration. His daughter who was five years old when he was locked up is now 19. That special father/daughter relationship that is usually forged in teenage years might be lost for ever. He probably would come home to find a home he doesn’t recognise, a wife who has become independent and children who have to get used to having a father again. [caption id="attachment_241077" align="alignnone" width="412"] Alhaji Shofolahan, Late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola and Major Hamazat Al-Mustapha[/caption] Fourteen years is a long time. There was no GSM for example in 1999. But it is not only the internet and social media revolution that has passed him by. Life itself has moved on—in Kano where he was born, in the Military where he used to hold sway despite his rank, in his family where he was Lord of the Manor, and in the larger society where his name alone s...