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Untold Story About Dele Giwa's Death by ThatFairGuy: 10:59pm On May 29, 2017 |
THE LONG AWAITED CONFIRMATION OF THE
SUSPICION ABOUT DELE GIWA'S DEATH
Mohammed Buba Marwa delivered the letter
bomb that killed Dele Giwa – Dr. Taiyemiwo
Ogunade
On Sunday, Professor Taiyemiwo Ogunade gave
a bombshell interview to The NATION
newspaper in which he made startling
revelations about those who killed Dele Giwa in
1986. In a subsequent chat with
Saharareporters, he spoke specifically about the
role of former military administrator of Lagos
State Buba Marwa in the assassination of the
colourful journalist.
Dr. Ogunade disclosed that soldiers loyal to the
slain General Mamman Vatsa identified Marwa
as the person who delivered the parcel bomb
that killed Giwa, the Newswatchmagazine
founder.
He said the revelation came from a confidential
discussion he had with one of the military boys
who came to the City University of New York
(CUNY) to press the college to train Nigerian
military officials in “Peace and Conflict
Resolution”. He said that Vatsa gave a four-hour
long testimony to the military tribunal that tried
and later sentenced him to death for a
phantom coup plot against former military
dictator, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.
Saharareporters : Do you know who delivered
the bomb that killed Dele Giwa?
Ogunade: I believe that Buba Marwa did it.
Some Mamman Vatsa boys told the full story in
New York during a visit to my college to lobby
our college to accept to train Nigerian military
officers. Ambassador Olusola was on that
entourage. (My informant) told me Dele Giwa
was killed because he was in possession of a
tape containing Vatsa’s testimony before the
military tribunal. For four hours, Vatsa
requested to tell the full story about how the
Babangida regime was operating and his
knowledge of the workings of IBB’s mind. He
pointed out that after Halilu Akilu and Col. A.K
Togun of the military intelligence prepared the
parcel it was handed over to Buba Marwa to
deliver to Dele Giwa. Marwa is a well–known
“IBB boy”. But I was the one who gave Dele
Giwa the tape.
Saharareporters : How did you get the tape?
Ogunade: Vatsa had a copy made by his friends
in the tribunal and smuggled out to me and I
“loaned” it to Dele Giwa who got on the case
immediately. I still don’t know how Dele Giwa
found out that I had the tape till this day.
Saharareporters : Do you still have a copy?
Ogunade: Yes, but you know I left Nigeria
hurriedly after the death of Dele Giwa. I left
(the tape) with my aged mother, who did not
know the value then. I won’t say more, let the
military release that tape to the Nigerian public.
Saharareporters : Did Dele Giwa return the tape
to you?
Ogunade: Yes, he returned it after 24 hours.
Don’t forget that I loaned it to him; I think he
went and played it to Babangida’s people and
they eliminated him after they heard the tape.
Saharareporters : What about Gloria Okon? It’s
been said that Dele Giwa’s discovery of her was
the reason he was killed?
Ogunade: Gloria Okon is actually Chinyere,
that’s her real name. She married Charles “Jeff”
Chandler, the fellow who killed Nzeogwu and
was killed a day later. Chinyere, Maryam and
Princess Atta were young friends who hung out
together. They all married into the military,
because the military was a proud and
respectable profession then. Charles Chandler,
who was Tiv, married Chinyere who I think is
from Imo State. IBB married Maryam from
Asaba and Mamman Vatsa married the
princess. So Chinyere became a widow and
resorted to trading between UK and Nigeria.
And then she was caught with drugs; Mamman
Vatsa was the person who put Chinyere on the
next available flight from Kano to London – and
then claimed that she was dead by parading a
dead woman picked out of the mortuary. Dele
Giwa later found out that she was in London
having delivered a baby by another man. He
sent a French photographer to the place and
they saw Maryam Babangida at the event.
Kayode Soyinka brought back the photographs.
Dele was sitting across the table from Kayode
examining the photos taken of “Gloria
Okon” (Chinyere, Richard Chandler’s wife) at the
naming ceremony in London. Maryam
Babangida was there. And then a letter parcel
was delivered to him and he said excitedly that
it must be from “Mr. President” referring to the
discussions he had with IBB days earlier. The
bomb exploded and severed his lower
abdomen; he died a few hours later.
Saharareporters: Did you ever meet Marwa
again? And did you ask him about his
involvement?
Ogunade: Yes, Marwa was very active in the
Nigerian embassy in New York. For a long time
he was the “military attaché” to the Nigerian
mission in New York while I was a professor of
Black Studies at the City University of New York.
He came to my college to sign a $30 million
contract with the college so that members of
the Nigerian military could attend a “Peace and
Conflict Resolution program” and then be
awarded a masters degree upon completion of
the program. I fought bitterly against it, but the
chair of the department, John Muyibi Amoda,
badly wanted the money. I kept fighting and
one day the college authorities acceded to my
request. When I got home the college had
dismissed me, but also I got a fax message
saying the $30 million had been returned to
Marwa. But between Marwa and Abacha they
never returned that money to the Nigerian
treasury. They shared it. I heard between him
and Abacha, over $250 million was laundered
through an account used by the New York
mission of the Nigerian embassy. Marwa later
set up an airline with his share of the loot.
When he showed up to run for president I was
the one who petitioned the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to
investigate him. He confessed to money
laundering in handwritten statements to the
EFCC, but today he is the ambassador of Nigeria
to South Africa. The police officer that
investigated him, Ibrahim Magu, is permanently
suspended from the police force after he was
humiliated by the EFCC. It is a shameful
country.
Saharareporters : What else did you do?
Ogunade: We helped start the Obama
phenomenon in Chicago.
Saharareporters : How?
Ogunade: We fought and exposed Carol Mosley-
Braun who was Abacha’s agent in the US
Senate. She was removed from the US Senate
because she took $5 million from Abacha to
help cover his tracks in the US. We exposed her,
which was how it became possible for the
brilliant Obama to become the US president
today. We set the stage for it.
“Any evil done by man to man will be
redressed; if not now then later, if not by man
then by GOD …”
~Dele Giwa (16 March 1947 – 19 October 1986). |
Re: Untold Story About Dele Giwa's Death by IamaNigerianGuy(m): 11:07pm On May 29, 2017 |
What are the contents of the tape ? 1 Like |
Re: Untold Story About Dele Giwa's Death by emeijeh(m): 11:08pm On May 29, 2017 |
Paragraphs please!
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Re: Untold Story About Dele Giwa's Death by sunnysunny69(m): 5:58am On May 30, 2017 |
Babangida the evil genius. One day karma will visit you for all of the atrocities. |
Re: Untold Story About Dele Giwa's Death by Jerrypolo(m): 4:17pm On Nov 26, 2017 |
CC Seun lalasticalala I wonder why such an insightful article hasn't hit front page yet. Do the needful please. |
Re: Untold Story About Dele Giwa's Death by morbeta(m): 9:50pm On Nov 26, 2017 |
Am coming |
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