Re-Open all Military & Civilian Power MisUse Cases for Justice - Gowon

Thirty-eighty after he served as a military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon yesterday in Lagos, said all the wrongs done under both military and civilian authorities as a result of abuse of power should be reopened and investigated in order to do justice to the aggrieved.

Gowon, who said this during the book presentation “The Tragedy of Victory”, written by Brigadier-General Godwin Alabi-Isama (rtd), said: “The book appears to be the author’s loud statement of the need to rectify what appears to smack of injustice perpetrated against the otherwise innocent.

“This is not just an army problem. It is national malaise that causes people in authority to use the weight of their office and authority to hurt perceived personal ‘enemies’. With the firm establishment of democratic governance in Nigeria, wrongs done under both the military and civilian authorities as a result of abuse of power can and should be reopened and investigated to do justice to the aggrieved.

“With this work, Godwin Alabi-Isama, has made an invaluable contribution to understanding our nation’s history and our national aspiration to build a just and egalitarian society. He has unobtrusively posed the question whether anyone, however highly place, should get away with injustice deliberately perpetrated against innocent even under cover of national security.”

In his forward to the book, Gowon, who was represented by Ambassador Moses Iheonde, said as the Commander-in-Chief, he never ordered that Alabi-Isama be summoned from the war front, a development which he regretted led to his incarceration.

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