THE mother of Nigeria’s foremost journalist and late Editor in-Chief
of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, Madam Elekia Aishat Giwa, 87, is
dead.
Madam Giwa died at the Aruna Ogun Hospital in Ikorodu, Lagos, of an undisclosed ailment.
Already the people of Ugbekpe, Ekperi in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State, have been thrown in mourning following the death of Madam Giwa.
Before her death at about 5 a.m today, she was living with her daughter, Abibat Ronke Aboaba.
Her son, Dele, a celebrated journalist was murdered by unknown persons via a letter bomb delivered to his house in Ikeja on October 19, 1986. The parcel was marked “From the C-in-C” which raised speculations that the then military government had something to do with his death.
The government then, under Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, however, denied any complicity in the murder and institute a panel to find the killers which was never achieved.
The people of Ugbkpe Ekperi lamented, yesterday, that Madam Giwa died
before the Federal Government could unmasked the killers of Dele Giwa
and called on President Goodluck Jonathan to commence fresh
investigation into Giwa’s murder.
Madam Giwa died at the Aruna Ogun Hospital in Ikorodu, Lagos, of an undisclosed ailment.
Already the people of Ugbekpe, Ekperi in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State, have been thrown in mourning following the death of Madam Giwa.
Before her death at about 5 a.m today, she was living with her daughter, Abibat Ronke Aboaba.
Her son, Dele, a celebrated journalist was murdered by unknown persons via a letter bomb delivered to his house in Ikeja on October 19, 1986. The parcel was marked “From the C-in-C” which raised speculations that the then military government had something to do with his death.
The government then, under Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, however, denied any complicity in the murder and institute a panel to find the killers which was never achieved.