“Mohammed Buba Marwa
delivered the letter bomb that
Killed Dele Giwa” -- Dr.
Taiyemiwo Ogunade
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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What can I say.. My tongue is tied up! Watch some uninformed Nairalanders come here spew thrash.

What can I say.. My tongue is tied up! Watch some uninformed Nairalanders come here and spew thrash.

No be today now, its been a rumor for almost 3 decades.

What does it matter in killing a useless turncoat?

Terrible story.

Naija 4 u

fulani butchering their slaves since 17 AD

Hmmm! Nigeria. Interesting story indeed...

Mekky05:
What can I say.. My tongue is tied up! Watch some uninformed Nairalanders come here and spew thrash.

See one below

dialfa:
fulani butchering their slaves since 17 AD

NO BE TODAY WEY HAUSA/FULANI DON DEY DO YORUBAS STRONG THINGY OOO..

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.
how do you expect another policeman to investigate a criminal case against a politician?

This is deep

gbosky22:
This is deep

Too deep my brother,

This is a serious allegation ooooo

"Who kill Dele Giwa na Baba if you say Gida na u sabi" now this one is saying Buba marwa. who do we believe... Anyways who killed him or didn't kill him doesn't stop the fact that he's a hero and one of the martyrs of Nigerian journalism