The Nigerian military leader, General Sani Abacha, has dissolved his entire cabinet and announced an amnesty for some political detainees.
General Abacha made the announcement in a broadcast on national television and radio, on the fourth anniversary of the coup which brought him to power.
He said the cabinet had been dissolved to allow ministers to play a full role in the political processes, which are intended to end in parliamentary and presidential elections next year. General Abacha said that the government's amnesty extended only to those detainedes whose release would not pose a threat to national security.
He made no mention of Nigeria's best known political prisoner, Chief Moshood Abiola, the presumed winner of the annulled elections of 1993.
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