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Yakubu Mohammed, one of the founding editors and directors of Newswatch, has finally opened up on the assassination of Dele Giwa, the editor-in-chief of arguably Nigeria’s most successful weekly newsmagazine.
It was rumoured that Giwa had discovered her whereabouts and had travelled to interview her in London. The mysterious Okon, allegedly a drug courier, died in police custody, and that gave birth to several conspiracy theories, including the reason for the assassination of Dele Giwa. “To start with, I know, for a fact, that Newswatch was not planning to do any story on Gloria Okon, not by any of our reporters. Not by any of the editors and not by any of the directors – Dele , Ray , Dan and yours sincerely, Yakubu .“At Newswatch, we had two levels of editorial conferences: the General Conference open to all reporters and the Editorial Board where we discussed cover stories and this was open to only editors. The general conference was held on Thursdays.
“Until the tragic death of Dele, nobody heard anything again about Gloria Okon. But she came alive as the possible reason why Dele Giwa was killed. Dele was said to have travelled to London some weeks before his death and interviewed Gloria Okon. According to this story, it was Kayode Soyinka who brought the stories and the pictures to Lagos and Dele and Kayode were looking at the pictures when the lethal parcel landed,” he recounted.
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