Guardian

A PRO-DEMOCRACY organisation, Campaign for Democracy (CD) has joined other groups to mourn the mother of “one of the most celebrated journalists in the history of Nigeria,” Dele Giwa, who was murdered by a letter bomb in his Lagos home on October 19, 1986 during the administration of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.

In a statement by its president, Joe-Okei Odumakin, CD said Madam Elekhia Giwa who passed on at the age of 87 years, lived the last 27 years in perpetual agony over the gruesome murder of her son.

“It is an indictment of the criminal justice administration in Nigeria that Madam Giwa passed on to higher glory without the killers of her son being brought to book. While wishing her eternal rest in the bosom of the Lord, we again reiterate our call over the years that the agent of death who delivered the parcel bomb to Giwa in 1986 and the patrons must be fished out and brought to book for justice,” Odumakin said.

She described the late Madam Giwa as a rare woman unique in her steadfastness and totally committed to the heroic principles of her son.

“She was indeed a woman in a million. May her soul find peace quiet and solace in the arms of the Almighty,” the statement said.