29-years after the murder of renowned journalist, Dele Giwa, a
retired police chief, Chris Omeben, who conducted the investigation,
said the unresolved assassination was the most frustrating case he
handled in his career.
Giwa, Founding Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch magazine, was killed through
a parcel bomb at his Ikeja, Lagos residence on October 19, 1986.
Omeben, a former Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG, who turns 80
on October 27, said, yesterday, that the high profile investigation was
marred by interferences from “high places.”
The DIG explained that even when he had narrowed in on the principal
suspect, who could have thrown more light on the riddle, the suspect was
allowed to escape from Nigeria.
Omeben, now an Archbishop at Jesus Families Ministries, Iyana Ipaja,
Lagos, said Giwa was also careless in maintaining a relationship with
his estranged wife. He said: “They said somebody brought a parcel and
his son, Billy, received the parcel and took it to his father (Dele
Giwa), who was having his breakfast that morning.
“On the breakfast table with Dele was a man called Kayode Soyinka. I
heard that when Billy handed over the parcel, Soyinka left the table and
went to the adjacent room. “It was while he was there that the parcel
detonated. Dele was injured and eventually died. The metal partition
separating the dining room and the kitchen was destroyed.
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