Dele Giwa’s family
say they know who killed the revered journalist over thirty years ago via a
letter bomb delivered to his apartment.
The late journalist’s younger brother, Tunde, revealed that
the killer is a popular Nigerian who is ‘walking freely’ about the country
today.
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| Late Dele Giwa |
NUJ chairman, Lagos State Council Deji Elumoye has urged
the federal government to reopen investigations into Giwa’s case and not close
it until the killer is behind bars. Thirty years after the untimely death of
the founding editor of Newswatch magazine Dele Giwa, his younger brother Tunde
has revealed some details about the late revered journalist’s killer, Punch
reports.
Speaking at a colloquium organised in Dele Giwa’s honour by
the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Wednesday, October 19, an emotional
Tunde said the identity of the killer was known to everybody. He then urged
Nigerians to help the family assuage its pain of 30 years by bringing the
culprit to book.
“You people should
help us to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of Dele Giwa. Everybody
knows the person that killed him. He’s there walking freely around. I can
mention his name if you want.
“Please, help us…The
day I see the killer arraigned in court, I will be the happiest person on
earth,” Tunde said. On his own part, NUJ chairman, Lagos State Council Deji
Elumoye said it was saddening that so many years after Giwa died from a letter
bomb delivered to his home, no arrest had been made and none prosecuted.
“It is a matter of
worry that journalists could become subjects of attacks in the course of
carrying out their duty as members of the Fourth Estate of the Realm. “Not
quite long ago, a photo journalist, Mr. Benedict Uwalaka, and the Executive
Director and Chairman, Badagry Prime, were killed with the complicity of
security agents,” he said.
He therefore urged the Federal Government to order the
Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris to reopen investigation into Dele
Giwa’s murder.
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