Why I Couldn't Investigate Dele Giwa's Assasination - Ex-Police Chief Reveals Shocking Details

Posted by Lolade on Tue 27th Oct, 2015 - tori.ng

Over two decades after renowned reporter, Dele Giwa, was killed with a time bomb, a retired Police chief has revealed why the murder case was not thoroughly investigated.

Late Dele Giwa

29 years after the gruesome murder of Dele Giwa, retired police chief, Chris Omeben, who conducted the investigation, has disclosed that the unresolved assassination was the most daunting case in his entire career.

It can be recalled that the renowned reporter, Dele Giwa, was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch magazine, and was killed through a parcel bomb at his Ikeja, Lagos residence on October 19, 1986.

The former Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Omeben, who turns 80 on October 27, revealed 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.

"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.

Beyond that, everything in the kitchen was destroyed. If metal could be mangled this way by the bomb, what happened to Soyinka?" he quizzed.