By Olatuni Dare
Some 34
years after Dele Giwa, crusading
journalist and founding editor of the defunct Newswatch was killed in
what remains one of the most horrific acts of preternatural malevolence ever
carried out in Nigeria, nothing has been established beyond the fact and the
manner of the murder.
“Who killed Dele Giwa?” has been a recurring question ever since. Whodunit?
Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, with
whom Giwa enjoyed a cozy relationship, that he was not loath to advertise, has
been and remains a principal suspect in the murder. No arrests were made,
and no suspects have been arrested, and no persons have been charged, much less
prosecuted in what passed for the official investigation of the murder: a travesty
perfused by obfuscation, intimidation, blackmail, perjury, denialism, and all
the bureaucratic weapons that officialdom can conjure up.
There was ample reason for regarding Babangida as a principal suspect in the murder.
