Friday, 24 May 2013
The Man Died And So What? By Bayo Oluwasanmi
By Bayo Oluwasanmi
One of the high profile cold murder cases in the history of criminal justice in Nigeria that is recaptured and re-emphasized is the murder of Dele Giwa.
Few days ago, I stumbled on Giwa’s story in one of Europe’s reliable online portals based in London - EMN NEWS.
Though the story is over two years old, Giwa’s murder remains as fresh as the morning newspaper.
The story was based on interview with the principal actor in the controversial murder story, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. He was guest of the London weekly political program You Decide on London’s Ben TV.
The aged despot, a diabolical genius and a man with empty cranium with no droplets of wisdom declared that “Nigeria is bigger than Dele Giwa and that issue of his death should be forgotten forever.”
The interview conducted by the chief executive of the station, Dr. Alistair Soyode grilled IBB on the killers of Giwa.
IBB fielding questions wondered why the nation (Nigeria) is not sleeping because of only one person who met his death long ago. He said Giwa’s death should be treated as history.
In his characteristic grinning tooth-gap sheepish arrogance, he said: “Nigeria is bigger than a single individual. The nation should look on and move forward.”
Asked why are people fond of talking about Dele Giwa and linking his death to Babangida? “It is like saying that it was OBJ who killed Bola Ige,” explains IBB.
“If Bola Ige’s death cannot be linked to Obasanjo, why should Dele Giwa’s death be linked to Babangida?” asked IBB.
Life is a tangled web of injustice and wrong.
Giwa was a flaming journalist with a fiery message of rebuke for the oppressive military regime of IBB.
He was the pioneering journalist in Nigeria who blazed the path of investigative journalism bottled in a weekly authoritative brand known as Newswatch.
Giwa was extracted from our midst in 1986 through a parcel bomb. The parcel with the seal of the presidency marked “To be opened only by addressee,” was delivered to his Ikeja home in Lagos.
Receiving the parcel, Giwa said “This must be from the presidency.” Giwa had placed the parcel on his laps while it was being opened.
The parcel exploded torn Giwa into shards and shreds. Giwa’s life expired on the way to the hospital.
For more than a quarter of a century now, the question “Who killed Dele Giwa?” had burned like acid in our memory. His killers are still on the loose.
Given the corrupted and compromised Nigerian criminal justice system, it is not surprising that the country’s judicial system had successfully tap danced around the question.
The military junta of IBB was revered for the awful bountiful harvest of death reaped by his administration.
IBB finds so much pleasure in wickedness and cruelty to the extent that he will be angry with those who shorten such ordeals for his victims.
He enjoys fleeting pleasures of sin while he mistreated and oppressed our people.
IBB thrives on the liquidation of human lives. As far as he is concerned, they’re disposable diapers.
“Nigeria has moved on… why the nation not sleeping because of only one person…” exclaimed IBB.
Only one person? As far as IBB is concerned, Giwa is a footnote statistics!
The heartless sadist quipped: “Why are people fond of talking about Dele Giwa…?”
To us Giwa’s death is a living reality. But to IBB Giwa’s death is dead abstraction.
How dare IBB questioning us that we’re still in love with the memory of our beloved Giwa? Who is he to tell us how and why we should remember Giwa?
Why is IBB so anxious, disturbed, and irked that we still talk about injustice and the failure to unearth Giwa’s death? Why?
IBB is a little man with a narrow view who causes a world of trouble and agony for others. He’s is spiritually anemic, intellectually impoverished, and morally depleted.
It is this sardonic attack on traditional morality that galvanized enmity, hate, and rejection against IBB.
IBB is a man who refused to graduate in the college of life. With pride and a dead conscience, IBB shows no sense of remorse or sympathy for the life of a fellow being. No wonder, he’s too depraved to understand why we are still in deep grief over Giwa’s death.
As master coup plotter and dictator, IBB is accustomed to ordering executions of subordinates like yanking bird’s head in Purdue’s chicken Farm.
He once remarked that the only execution he ordered that he regretted was the killing of his boyhood friend, General Mamman Vasta. In other words, he didn’t give a damn for killing other ‘inconsequential’ human beings.
That IBB seems fazed that we insist on identifying the person or persons who killed Giwa, is the worst insult on our humanity.
With some modicum of common sense, IBB ought to know that we’re not the invalid people he thought we’re to be wheeled about on lies, or fed by fabrications, cosseted or nursed with tomfoolery and comforted by half truths.
We refused to buy his artificial reasons and sky-scrapper excuse over Giwa’s death. And what’s more, we’re not like IBB who walks through life with no questions, no mental struggles.
IBB is a man who is unsympathetic to sufferings and sorrows of others. How can he? After all, a man of darkened lenses of soul cannot see well.
The veil of wickedness over his mind prevents him from embracing the truth. And with the murder of Giwa, IBB has pitched himself as an enemy garrison against the rest of us.
Why IBB wants to bury Giwa with the memory of Giwa? Who is afraid of the ghost of Giwa? Who is tormented by Giwa’s ghostly apparition at midnight?
Why IBB wants us to forget about Giwa and move on?
Who is having sleepless nights over the death of Giwa? Why is IBB so uncomfortable and irritated at the mention of Giwa’s name?
How can IBB sleep at night with his two eyes closed the fact that Giwa’s murder happened on his watch as the dictator in charge of Nigeria at the time?
What kind of a man is Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida?
First and foremost, IBB is a law unto himself, and nobody in Nigeria dared to annul that law. On many occasions, he refused summons from legally constituted panels with no consequence.
He is an egotist, dramatist, boisterous, and bombastic fool.
Beneath IBB’s rough exterior and dramatic pose is a feeling of inferiority that tortures him.
He’s not academically trained. He had a constant fear and lived in perpetual fear that his sins would find him out.
He’s a personification of pomposity. He’s made wickedness the only festival of his soul. He’s a sparrow that wants to roost in eagle’s nest.
IBB is a bad photograph – underdeveloped and over-exposed!
The best way to promote unity is to promote truth. He’s alien to what is morally right and morally decent.
It is too late now to force or induce truth from IBB as to what he knew of the murder of Giwa and when he knew it.
Truth comes really through the person not merely over his lips. It must come through his character, affections, his whole intellectual and moral being.
A person who is not truthful grows remote. A person who abhors truth grows petty. IBB suffers from material plenty and spiritual poverty.
The sordid and sacrilegious acts that were the hall mark of his military gangsterism cover him with humiliation that qualifies him into merited oblivion.
Like the Biblical Alexander the coppersmith, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the gap-tooth general and destroyer of our nation did us much harm. The Lord will judge him for what he has done!
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@ Omoaholo Omogirie... Deaf, Dumb & Blind U Are!!!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 19, 2013 - 08:04.
Okey! Jesus u say deied for the sin of the world, shebi (which by the way is a BIG FAT LIE!!!)... Have you read a book called 'the gospele of Barnabas? Please look for it a read! Be warned that in so many countries if you were or are found with it, you shall be proclaimed a heretic and burnt alive. You know why? Coz its the 'true old testament'... Not the jargon you now call the bible (new testiment) created by an ocult called 'freemason' a.k.a 'infidels'. I tell you man, you are worshiping 'dujjal'. Deaf, dumb and blind you are... Be care not to remain so for eternity! By the way are you a JP? A true one?!
@anonymous Why Do You Dine & Wine With The Romans?
Submitted by Omoaholo Imogirie (not verified) on January 18, 2013 - 03:28.
Mr. Anonymous, you will not understand my explanation because you have ear, you could not hear; you have eyes but you cannot not see. The Words of our Lord are miseries to you Muslims that are lost. The only way you can understand what the then Romans did to Jesus Christ is to surrender to Jesus thereby you will be enlightened. Christ did not come to established his Kingdom on earth but to give His life for those of you unbeliever to be saved from your sins. Those Romans & the Pharisees fulfilled what God intended for humanity. That His Son will come & die for the sins of the World. You Muslims are the present day Pharisees. You are persecuting the followers of Christ....The Christians. Muslims are not waging war against Christians but God. Read The Holy Bible.
judgement
Submitted by akogunkunle (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 21:32.
The judgement of hottest part of gehenna awaits IBB and his supporters on this blog. Imagine some nincompoops insinuating that IBB is a saint! I cant imagine these idiots criticizing the writer for pouring out his emotion on the dastard murder of our beloveth DG. I wonder what their comments would sound like if uncle dele were to be their relative. Bunch of murderers. Shio, iku p'agilinti alawo belentase eni s'awo e m'odi. Time will surely tell.
@ Wahala... Thank uuuuuu...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 19:54.
Thank you! Tell the Mumu. He forgot just of recent Aremu was suggesting a wipe out of whole communities in Borno and Yobe like he did in "many certain towns". Taking life of a human is not of human, its exclusive right of God. But at the same time wrongly accusing one of such act is tantamount to destroying human life.
OMOAHALO IMOGERIE
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 19:39.
Let me ask you. Since you seem to hate Islam, Muslims and Prophet Mohammad and well you obviously revere Jesus. Tell, why do you still celebrate, dine and wine and romance the Romans that crucified Jesus? Or is it that you do not know what you claim to be practicing?.... Idol worship! Jesus... Excuse me... Prophet Isah (Peace Be Upon Him) NEVER TAUGH you the rubbish you are practicing... You call chritianity! He is pure, born from Purity (Virgin Mary, PBUH)! Seek for 'The Gospel of Barnabas', a book youd learn from. Jahil!
BABANGI......WHAAAT????????
Submitted by Kay Ola (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 16:28.
WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! IS IBRAHIM BABANGIDA STILL ALIVE?
Leave IBB Alone. His Children Will Pay For His Sins
Submitted by Omoaholo Imogirie (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 15:49.
IBB is already a dead man. His children will carry on with his generation curses. Where is his wife? Did she carry the stolen wealth of the country with her to her grave? There is no need quoting the Bible verse to a Muslim lunatic. How many years left out of this dead man's life? What borders us is, the Muslims have no souls. They are born wicked. They are the ones protecting IBB. They never see anything wrong with their brother in crime. IBB only have a fight with the South not the North. He gave the whole country to islam. He rewarded they by giving the country to OIC. The Northern Muslims & IBB killed Dele Giwa. There is no need worrying ourselves than to hand them to their master the DEVIL just like their prophet mohammad. IBB, your children will pay for your sins.
may be na you killed him
Submitted by ayo okilo (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 14:57.
is like you were just born 15years ago so you are still a teenager who does not know anything as at the time you were born,let IBB come out and prove it that he doesn't no anything about Dele Giwa death
DELE GIWA WAS BETRAYED BY CIVIL SOCIETY AND ALL NIGERIANS
Submitted by osita DIOKA (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 14:15.
The letter bomb which took Dele Giwa's life was an organised act of violence orchestrated by professional killers.Typical of the Nigerian system where important questions are swept under the rug no tangible public enquiry has been held to answer the relevant questions surrounding the brutal killing of this patriotic journalist till date.
Dele Giwa was basically betrayed by the Nigerian Nation,the perceived perpetrators of the crime still walk free and even partake in politics,huge government contracts and social activities as if nothing happened.
Human Rights issues have no expiry date,those who engaged in the Holocaust of 1939-45 are still getting hunted down worldwide,but in Nigeria we are more interested in hunting down Prof Ndibe or others engaged in exercising their democratic rights of free speech.
Rubbish
Submitted by NNAMDI (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 12:45.
A very badly written piece: grammatically incorrect, lacking in content, lacking in substance. the writer is a poor writer. actually, he can be sued for character assasination and image defamation. how did he come to his conclusion ? As much as we can publish our articles freely on the internet it doesn't mean we should abuse it.
THE WEIGHT OF UR ARTICLE
Submitted by Dan Ikhane (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 11:18.
Hi Bayo,
first of all i think every well meaning Nigerian empathizes with u on the death of late journalism icon(DELE GIWA). it lingers on on our minds until judgment day. But i perceive your article is filled with emotions and personal choler towards our former mephistophelian dictator. mind u, there is a reward for every act but the best Rewarder is our Heavenly Father. Take it easy and pray for the peace of Nigeria. It is well.....I'm a true Nigerian Youth.
MUMU
Submitted by Musty (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 10:43.
You sound funny, you hate IBB and that is why you cannot compose yourself and do a good job of your article. What about your brother(Yoruba's)? How many people did they kill? Maybe you should pour out the same venom and write something on them. After all you don't know who killed Dele Giwa because you don't have facts. Presidential seal that is all you got and yet you can use it to insult a General. You are a fucking imbecile. MUMU.
@ Bayo Oluwasanmi : Your Venom is Worse than IBB's
Submitted by Wähala (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 10:37.
@ Bayo Oluwasanmi :
This is sentimental rubbish. You made a lot of unsubstantiated claims that is obviously anger-induced. IBB was a soldier, they're killers by profession! He was a Director of Military Intelligence (DMI) and could not have been "intellectually impoverished"as you claim if you know the remit associated with military intelligence.
Compared to your ugly uncle, the Otta Monster, IBB is an "Evil Saint". OBJ anihilated towns & villages, introduced "Do or Die" politics that consumed innocent lives. There is legitimacy in IBB's arguement that compared the murder of Bola Ige to that of Giwa. Otunba Oluwasanmi, the man is INNOCENT until proven guilty. Instead of this long and polemic treatise, why not revisit the case in court since you seem to disagree that Naija is bigger than one Dele Giwa!
Nigeria has moved beyond Giwa, Abiola, Kudirat, Saro-Wiwa, Bola Ige et al.
Dele Giwa is not even a footnote in Nigeria's history!
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES
Submitted by ADEYEMI TOBIAS NDUDI (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 07:39.
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES WITH THEM. BABANGIDA IS UNFORTUNATELY LIVING A LIFE OF HELL ON EARTH WITH ALL HIS WEALTH.
HE IS ALWAYS UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE MEETING PEOPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ALWAYS MAKE HIM TO THINK THAT IN THEIR THOUGHTS THEY ARE POINTING ACCUSING FINGERS AT HIM ON THE ISSUE OF DELE GIWA.
LET BABANGIDA KNOWS THAT WE REFUSE TO MOVE FORWARD OVER THE ISSUE OF DELE GIWA. IF ANSWERS ARE NOT GIVEN NOW WHEN WE ARE ALIVE, OUR CHILDREN WE KNOW THE TRUTH ONE DAY.
DELE GIWA's DEATH IS LIKE THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES ON BABANGIDA's HEAD
IBB's wrong deed
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 07:37.
Babangida is a not at fault is jst becuse he lacks fear of God, bible says the fear of God is the begining of wisdom i.e whosoever lacks the fear of God will authomatically lack wisdom that was the reason why the man was frivolous and wicked. Babangida if u ve opportunity of reading this writtings i would advise you to seek for the forgiveness of God
Your article is only full of
Submitted by Jada (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 06:39.
Your article is only full of hatred for IBB.Yo people have taken him to court for numbers of time Tha I cannot remember.The mere fact you are judged him guilty does not in any way stand as charged.Not impressed.
IBB
Submitted by IBB (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 05:47.
Oga, there is too much emotion in your write-up.
It would have been a far more solid article if you stated the evidence that LINKS IBB to Giwa's demise.
And these DOCUMENTS are available.
So, your article could in that case, be one more document for reference.
Evidence, not emotion.
Adieu Nigeria
Submitted by Onyibe Osawaru (not verified) on January 17, 2013 - 04:28.
Nigeria is typical oil republic synonymous with banana republic where we have so much demented pseudo-democrats. They are so afraid of IBB, I presume Posterity is afraid too,
