Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), has dismissed the longtime allegation of being involved in the death of veteran journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch, Dele Giwa.
Papers News recalls that Giwa, a vocal critic of Babangida’s military government, was assassinated via a parcel bomb in his home in Ikeja, Lagos State, on October 19, 1986.
Two days before the incident, a senior official of the Directorate of Military Intelligence had accused Giwa of illegally importing and stockpiling arms and ammunition to stage a socialist revolution in Nigeria.