On Sunday, Professor Taiyemiwo Ogunade gave a
bombshell interview to the NATION newspaper in which he
made startling revelations about those who killed Dele Giwa
in 1986. In a subsequent chat with Saharareporters, he
spoke specifically about the role of former military
administrator of Lagos State Buba Marwa in the
assassination of the journalist.

On Sunday, Professor Taiyemiwo Ogunade gave a bombshell
interview to the NATION newspaper in which he made startling
revelations about those who killed Dele Giwa in 1986. In a
subsequent chat with Saharareporters, he spoke specifically about
the role of former military administrator of Lagos State Buba Marwa
in the assassination of the journalist.

Dr. Ogunade disclosed that soldiers loyal to the slain General
Mamman Vatsa identified Marwa as the person who delivered the
parcel bomb that killed Giwa, the Newswatch magazine founder.

He said the revelation came from a confidential discussion he had
with one of the military boys who came to the City University of
New York (CUNY) to press the college to train Nigerian military
officials in “Peace and Conflict Resolution”. He said that Vatsa
gave a four-hour long testimony to the military tribunal that tried
and later sentenced him to death for a phantom coup plot against
former military dictator, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.

Saharareporters: Do you know who delivered the bomb that killed
Dele Giwa?

Ogunade : I believe that Buba Marwa did it. Some Mamman Vatsa
boys told the full story in New York during a visit to my college to
lobby our college to accept to train Nigerian military officers.
Ambassador Olusola was on that entourage. [My informant] told me
Dele Giwa was killed because he was in possession of a tape
containing Vatsa’s testimony before the military tribunal. For four
hours, Vatsa requested to tell the full story about how the
Babangida regime was operating and his knowledge of the workings
of IBB’s mind. He pointed out that after Halilu Akilu and Col. A.K
Togun of the military intelligence prepared the parcel it was handed
over to Buba Marwa to deliver to Dele Giwa. Marwa is a well–known
“IBB boy”. But I was the one who gave Dele Giwa the tape.
Saharareporters: How did you get the tape?
Ogunade : Vatsa had a copy made by his friends in the tribunal and
smuggled out to me and I “loaned” it to Dele Giwa who got on the
case immediately. I still don’t know how Dele Giwa found out that I
had the tape till this day.

Saharareporters: Do you still have a copy?

Ogunade : Yes, but you know I left Nigeria hurriedly after the death
of Dele Giwa. I left [the tape] with my aged mother, who did not
know the value then. I won’t say more, let the military release that
tape to the Nigerian public.

Saharareporters: Did Dele Giwa return the tape to you?

Ogunade : Yes, he returned it after 24 hours. Don’t forget that I
loaned it to him; I think he went and played it to Babangida’s
people and they eliminated him after they heard the tape.

Saharareporters: What about Gloria Okon? It’s been said that
Dele Giwa’s discovery of her was the reason he was killed?

Ogunade : Gloria Okon is actually Chinyere, that’s her real name.
She married Charles "Jeff" Chandler, the fellow who killed Nzeogwu
and was killed a day later. Chinyere, Maryam and Princess Atta
were young friends who hung out together. They all married into the
military, because the military was a proud and respectable profession
then. Charles Chandler, who was Tiv, married Chinyere who I think is
from Imo State. IBB married Maryam from Asaba and Mamman
Vatsa married the princess. So Chinyere became a widow and
resorted to trading between UK and Nigeria. And then she was
caught with drugs; Mamman Vatsa was the person who put Chinyere
on the next available flight from Kano to London – and then claimed
that she was dead by parading a dead woman picked out of the
mortuary. Dele Giwa later found out that she was in London having
delivered a baby by another man. He sent a French photographer to
the place and they saw Maryam Babangida at the event. Kayode
Soyinka brought back the photographs.
Dele was sitting across the table from Kayode examining the photos
taken of “Gloria Okon” (Chinyere, Richard Chandler’s wife) at the
naming ceremony in London. Maryam Babangida was there. And
then a letter parcel was delivered to him and he said excitedly that
it must be from “Mr. President” referring to the discussions he had
with IBB days earlier. The bomb exploded and severed his lower
abdomen; he died a few hours later.
Saharareporters: Did you ever meet Marwa again? And did you
ask him about his involvement?

Ogunade : Yes, Marwa was very active in the Nigerian embassy in
New York. For a long time he was the “military attaché” to the
Nigerian mission in New York while I was a professor of Black
Studies at the City University of New York. He came to my college
to sign a $30 million contract with the college so that members of
the Nigerian military could attend a “Peace and Conflict Resolution
program” and then be awarded a masters degree upon completion of
the program. I fought bitterly against it, but the chair of the
department, John Muyibi Amoda, badly wanted the money. I kept
fighting and one day the college authorities acceded to my request.
When I got home the college had dismissed me, but also I got a fax
message saying the $30 million had been returned to Marwa. But
between Marwa and Abacha they never returned that money to the
Nigerian treasury. They shared it. I heard between him and Abacha,
over $250 million was laundered through an account used by the
New York mission of the Nigerian embassy. Marwa later set up an
airline with his share of the loot. When he showed up to run for
president I was the one who petitioned the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate him. He confessed to
money laundering in handwritten statements to the EFCC, but
today he is the ambassador of Nigeria to South Africa. The police
officer that investigated him, Ibrahim Magu, is permanently
suspended from the police force after he was humiliated by the
EFCC. It is a shameful country.

Saharareporters: What else did you do?

Ogunade : We helped start the Obama phenomenon in Chicago.

Saharareporters: How?

Ogunade : We fought and exposed Carol Mosley-Braun who was
Abacha’s agent in the US Senate. She was removed from the US
Senate because she took $5 million from Abacha to help cover his
tracks in the US. We exposed her, which was how it became
possible for the brilliant Obama to become the US president today.
We set the stage for it.

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