“It Was Better He Died”: Doctor Recalls Dele Giwa’s Final Moments

Thirty-nine years after the parcel bomb that killed Newswatch co-founder, Dele Giwa, the doctor who received him at the First Foundation Medical Center, Dokun Adedeji, has given a first-hand account of his final minutes.
Adedeji, who spoke on Monday at the launch of ‘Dele Giwa’s Granite Journalism’ at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos State, said he was on weekend duty when the incident happened and recounted how he was alerted by another doctor who kept shouting, ‘Come, come, come, they bomb Dele Giwa.’
Adedeji:  “I said, ‘You must be kidding me.'” So as I got out, I saw Funmi; Funmi was in blood. She had the cover; was it a blanket or a white cloth around him?” he na...