“The unresolved
assassination of Dele Giwa was the most frustrating case I’ve ever handled in
my career,” retired police chief, Chris Omeben, who conducted the
investigation, said twenty-nine years after the murder of renowned journalist,
Dele Giwa.
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 2015 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.
“Beyond that, everything in
the kitchen was destroyed. If metal could be mangled this way by the bomb, what
happened to Soyinka?
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