Bola Ige’s, other unsolved murders - Punch Newspapers

A Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, recently reopened one of the putrid open sores that besmirch Nigeria when he urged the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari , to restart investigations into the murder of 20 years ago of Bola Ige, then the Attorney-General of the Federation.

Ige’s murder particularly outraged the country and sullied its image on the world stage. He was not only the incumbent AGF and Minister of Justice; he was an ex-governor of old Oyo State, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, a former state commissioner and political giant for four decades. Soyinka’s reminder to Buhari to bring the killers and those of other assassination victims to book is timely.

Also unresolved is the June 4, 1996 assassination of Kudirat Abiola; the September 2002 double murder of the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Onitsha Branch, Barnabas Igwe, and his wife, Abigail, and the July 2006 killing of Funsho Williams, a PDP governorship aspirant in Lagos State. Although the police arraigned some suspects before the court, a Lagos High Court judge freed them, citing lack of evidence.

The result is that assassins and those who contracted them have been walking free. Investigations into these murders have reached a dead end without any useful legal result. This is a serious dent on Nigeria’s public safety and national security. The lack of political will by the government, obstruction, and lack of enthusiasm by police to arrest and prosecute the masterminds underscore the mess. Police lack effective forensic investigative equipment.

This Bola Ige's murder is still the height... A whole attorney of the federation was murdered and we moved on in 2003 like nothing happened. I remember my A-level school after his demise, just by his estate... Quiet residential, with enough security, talk less his home security.

It's Chief Obasanjo ordered him to be murdered.

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