KADUNA—The Chairman,
National Human Rights
Commission, NHRC,
Professor Anselem
Odinkalu, said yesterday
that the violence that led to
the current insurgent
activities of Boko Haram
Islamic sect in the country
actually started in 1986 with
killing of the renowned
journalist, Mr Dele Giwa
with a parcel bomb, just as
he lamented over what he
described as
democratisation of violence
since the return to civil rule
in 1999.
Odinkalu spoke during the
commissioning of Moluma
Loma Centre for Medical
Law, and the MIVE Legals
Matrimonial Centre,
Kaduna.
In his keynote address on
the occasion Odinkalu said,
“Contrary to what people
think, the phenomenon that
has now become Boko
Haram actually started in
an Ikeja Street, on October
18, 1986. That day the first
Improvised Explosive
Device, IED, was used to
blow up Dele Giwa.
Everyone knew that it was a
state-sponsored murder.
That was the first time that
an IED went off on Nigerian
soil.
”Series of events would later
lead to Boko Haram today.
At that time, late Gani
Fawehinmi had the courage
to challenge the state on
that murder. But he was in
turn persecuted until his
death.
”The Police officer who was
investigating the murder
was also killed in an un-
explained circumstances in
Mokwa, Niger State. He
was the immediate younger
brother of the celebrated
writer and critic of
government, Tunji Dare.
“When a state sponsors the
illegal murder of its citizens,
it loses its legitimacy as a
government. So today’s
terrorism started as state
sponsored.

Culled from globalruns.com

He's wrong. It started with the arrival of the first missionaries in the 1800s.

Interesting to read some funny stuff.

Bokoharam means Western Style is dangerous. Dele Giwa was a Western Style Reporter. And he was bombed. Yes ooo Prof. Let us start Investigation from the bomber of Dele Giwa.