Thirty-nine years after, former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida has thrown more light on two major events that shaped his administration – the assassination of renowned journalist Dele Giwa and the execution of his friend and colleague, Major General Mamman Vatsa, over a coup plot. While he dismissed insinuations of his administration’s orchestration of the Giwa assassination on October 19, 1986 as “cheap and foolish,” Babangida said Vatsa’s death, via execution for a coup plot, “was a personal loss of a childhood friend.”...CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING.>>
Just In: I did not Kill Dele Giwa – IBB
