Today In History General Sani Abacha Died

Today in history June 7th Nigeria's foremost tyrant Late Gen. Sani Abacha died under mysterious circumstance in 1998.
Sani Abacha,  was born September 20, 1943, Kano, Nigeria—died June 8, 1998, Abuja. He was a Nigerian military leader, who served as head of state  between 1993–1998. Abacha overthrew an interim government to take over in 1993.
He is known for the brutal way he handled the affairs of the country and its citizens. He jailed  and executed some prominent Nigerians including Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military leader of Nigeria (1976–79), were jailed for treason. Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, was also charged with treason, although he had voluntarily left the country.  Abacha’s most brutal act was the imprisonment, trial, and subsequent execution for treason of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists who were concerned with the environmental exploitation of their region by multinational petroleum companies.
Abacha had lots of money stashed in foreign banks  though some of the money was reportedly returned to the Nigerian government.