{"id":42547,"date":"2022-10-20T20:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/?p=42547"},"modified":"2022-10-20T20:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:02:42","slug":"sowore-makes-shocking-revelation-about-killer-of-dele-giwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/sowore-makes-shocking-revelation-about-killer-of-dele-giwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowore Makes Shocking Revelation About Killer Of Dele Giwa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Omoyele Sowore\u00a0has said he plans to reopen the case of a journalist, Dele Giwa, who was murdered in Ikeja, Lagos on October 19, 1986.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Newsonline<\/strong> <\/a>reports that the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the case of a late journalist and activist, Dele Giwa, who was murdered in Ikeja, Lagos on October 19, 1986, with a bomb enclosed in a parcel, will be reopened.<\/p>\n

Also:\u00a0Sowore Slams Peter Obi For Inspecting Datti\u2019s Hospital<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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In a memorial post for the late activist on Wednesday, Sowore knocked former military President, Ibrahim Babangida, alleging that he was part of the plot to assassinate Giwa.<\/p>\n

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This online media platform recalls that Giwa was the editor and founder of Newswatch magazine.<\/p>\n

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Giwa was killed by a parcel bomb in his home at Ikeja, Lagos, while in his study on Sunday, October 19, 1986. The assassination occurred two days after he had been interviewed by State Security Service (SSS) officials.<\/p>\n

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Giwa had been invited by the SSS to their headquarters for the first time on September 19, 1986 after writing an article in which he described the newly introduced Second-Tier Foreign Exchange Market (SFEM) as \u201cGod\u2019s experiment\u201d and suggested that if SFEM failed, the people would stone their leaders in the streets.<\/p>\n

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Sowore on Wednesday, took to Twitter to make a memorial post on the deceased journalist.<\/p>\n

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He shared pictures of the late journalist alongside a flyer that read, \u201cWho killed Dele Giwa?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The AAC flag bearer alleged that the former military President, Ibrahim Babangida, was part of the plot to assassinate Giwa.<\/p>\n

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He went on to state that the case would be reopened.<\/p>\n

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\u201c36 years ago, ex-military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, plotted with Halilu Akilu (Ex-Director of National Intelligence) and Col A.K Togun (now deceased) to send a letter bomb that assassinated foremost investigative journalist, Dele Giwa, in his house in Ikeja. We\u2019ll reopen the case!\u201d Sowore posted.<\/p>\n

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Omoyele Sowore\u00a0has said he plans to reopen the case of a journalist, Dele Giwa, who was murdered in Ikeja, Lagos on October 19, 1986.   Newsonline reports that the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the case of a late journalist and activist, Dele Giwa, who was murdered in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":42549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[37486,37485,37487,37488,5398,37484],"coauthors":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Sowore-653x365-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42547"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=42547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}