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  Children of late Mrs Kudirat Abiola, wife of the winner of the 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, have dragged the Federal Government before the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Abuja over the killing of their mother. The suit marked ECW/CCJ/APP/62/2022 was filed on Tuesday by their lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN). Mrs Abiola was shot dead in her car in Oregun area in Lagos on June 4, 1996, at a time she was leading the campaign for the unconditional release of her husband who was detained for declaring himself president based on the result of the annulled election. Falana recalled that Sergeant Barnabas Jabila (a.k.a. Sergeant Rogers), a member of the killer squad set up by the then military junta confessed during a sitting of the Oputa panel in Lagos on December 8, 2000, that he shot Mrs Abiola dead and attempted to kill the late Senator Abraham Adesanya and Alex Ibru by shooting them on the instructions of the Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security Officer of General Sani Ab...