Giwa was killed on Sunday, October 19, 1986, exactly 37 years ago, in his residence at 25, Talabi Street, off Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos by an explosion caused by bomb enclosed in a parcel.…CONTINUE.FULL.READING>>>...For More CONTINUE THE FULL READING▶▶
The #RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore, has decried that 37 years after a journalist and activist, Dele Giwa, was murdered, he has yet to get justice.
Giwa was killed on Sunday, October 19, 1986, exactly 37 years ago, in his residence at 25, Talabi Street, off Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos by an explosion caused by bomb enclosed in a parcel.
In a memorial post for the late activist on Thursday, the activist knocked a former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, alleging that he was behind the assassination.
Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections, offered a prayer that Giwa’s spirit should torment those who plotted his death.
His death has remained a mystery to Nigerians, especially since the government has failed to bring anyone to justice or officially made any concrete revelation regarding the murder.
Giwa’s death was believed to be articulately plotted and the use of a letter bomb was unprecedented in Nigeria’s history.
In remembrance of his death with none of his suspected killers made to face the law to date, Sowore in a post on his X (formerly Twitter) handle, said, “Exactly today (October 19, 1986) 37 years ago, military head of state, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (notoriously known as “IBB) sent a letter bomb to the Lagos residence of topmost journalist, Dele Giwa, the bomb ripped through his lower abdomen and killed him.
“Till date his killers were never brought to justice. Rest in Power, Dele Giwa. May your spirit continue to torment Babangida and others who conspired to kill you in your prime.”..…CONTINUE.FULL.READING>>>
