Metro Boko Haram Started with 1986 Bombing of Dele Giwa - NHRC

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The Chairman, National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, on Thursday in Kaduna, said the activities of the outlawed group, Boko Haram, actually started in 1986 when the Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch, Dele Giwa, was killed through a parcel bomb.

Odinkalu also lamented what he regarded as democratisation of violence since the return to civil rule in 1999.

He said: “Contrary to what people think, the phenomenon that has now become Boko Haram actually started in an Ikeja Street, on October 18, 1986. That day, the first Improvised Explosive Device, was used to blow up Dele Giwa. Everyone knew that it was a state-sponsored murder. That was the first time that an IED went off on Nigeria soil. Series of events would later lead to Boko Haram today.

“At that time, Gani Fawehinmi (now late) had the courage to challenge the state on that murder. But he was in turn persecuted until his death. The Police Officer, who was investigating the murder, was also killed in unexplained circumstances in Mokwa, in Niger State. He was the immediate Junior brother of the celebrated writer and critic, Tunji Dare.

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