MOHAMMED BUBA MARWA DELIVERED THE LETTER BOMB THAT KILLED DELE GIWA – DR.
TAIYEMIWO OGUNADE

OCTOBER 27, 2015

On Sunday, Professor Taiyemiwo Ogunade gave a bombshell interview to The NATION newspaper in which h 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 colourful 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 Newswatchmagazine
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 militar tribunal that tried and later sentence 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 di 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.
“Any evil done by man to man will be
redressed; if not now then later, if
not by man then by GOD …” – Dele
Giwa

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