Throwback photo of Sen. Shehu Sami awaiting trial for Treason at Kirikiri Prison In 1995

 

This photo of  Senator Shehu Sani awaiting trial for Treason and managing an unlawful society was taken in 1995, at Kiri Kiri Maximum Security Prison, Lagos.

He was implicated in the 1995 phantom coup during General Sani Abacha's regime and was subsequently jailed for life but later commuted to 15 years by the chairman of Special Military Tribunal,  late Major-General Patrick Aziza who died in 2014.