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Dele Giwa’s Murder: Soyinka replies ex-Police DIG, Omeben

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Chris Omeben" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjB0T39dit4KmodcV6e_NabH16AldAMIkFgYIhCGqhxL-cjQgL0DVrAAQD3Z5KrJdd0bLz_2LS5fXwe-fnGR_F3HNF4ev9eqGtEz0Ka2pOdknZs8wsMaBv24jYqkAt1ClArqcRjdk-ytYmVBRlgwjjOPTSZvMz_84YGXRxCvGUqp88UiKx6RLu47N2Ulrrv8gt3PG3V0FXqK6S7a5CpA765qOQXMrWXnlQjIxTw1MT7=" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="240" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Omeben</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;">A former London Bureau chief of Newswatch, Kayode Soyinka, who was present when Dele Giwa, the co-founder of the magazine was bombed to death in 1986, has reacted to recent claims by a retired police investigator that Mr. Soyinka fled after the attack and was never questioned.</span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, published Monday, Chris Omeben, a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, who was in charge of investigating the murder, said Mr. Soyinka was shielded from being quizzed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr. Giwa was killed through a letter bomb while having breakfast with Mr. Soyinka in Lagos.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr. Omeben, now 80, said Mr. Soyinka was the principal suspect in the attack, and wondered how he survived the powerful blast when he was in the same room.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> He said Mr. Soyinka apparently left the scene shortly before the explosion. Mr. Omeben subtly faulted widespread accusations against the then military regime of Ibrahim Babangida, which many blame for the killing.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0.5rem; margin-right: 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr. Soyinka, who is now the publisher of Africa Today magazine, spoke to <b>PREMIUM TIMES</b> from his London base. He said he was questioned twice by the police after the incident.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> He accused Mr. Omeben of deceit, and labelled him a “disgrace” to the Nigerian Police, who worked with the former military regime to cover up the crime. He said the real suspect in the murder was Halilu Akilu, a former army intelligence officer, who called up Mr. Giwa’s house repeatedly to get the description to the property on the day of the attack.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I gave statements not once but twice to the same Nigerian Police he represents before I eventually left Nigeria. The first one was at the hospital where I was admitted – Dele’s body was next door to me. That interrogation by a senior police officer whose name I cannot recall took place on the spot when the incident was still fresh. It was inside the hospital. Dele Olojede (publisher of defunct 234next newspaper) was beside me – he is alive, go and ask him,” he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mr. Soyinka recalled that Halilu Akilu called Mr. Giwa’s house about three times within 24hours and spoke to Funmilayo, Dele’s wife, to know how to get to the journalist’s Ikeja home.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “On the Sunday of the bomb blast Dele had spoken to Akilu from his upstairs bedroom before coming down to have breakfast with me, to tell him that he heard he had called him on Saturday and asked why. The letter bomb was delivered to the house within 45 minutes after that early morning telephone discussion between Dele and Akilu. So who should be Omeben’s ‘principal suspect’ then? Should it be me who was bombed with Dele? Or Akilu?</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Chris Omeben, who was a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, when the letter bomb blast occurred on October 19, 1986, is a complete disgrace to the Nigeria Police Force. He claimed to be an investigator of the bomb blast. Instead of protecting me, the survivor, who escaped death by a whisker, and by the very special grace of God, he is sadly and disgracefully trying to rewrite the script to make me, as he said, his ‘principal suspect’.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “His ‘principal suspect’ should be Halilu Akilu, who called Dele’s house about three times consecutively Saturday before the Sunday bombing and spoke to Funmilayo, Dele’s wife, to ask for description of and direction to Dele’s house in Ikeja.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Omeben, said, and I quote: ‘Soyinka knew what was coming and he left the room to hide behind the wall.’ What a blatant lie? This man, who I understand is now a pastor, has no fear of God in him at all, making such bold erroneous statement like that on an issue of such sensitivity and accusing me, an innocent man – a victim and survivor of the bomb blast. He should ask God for forgiveness!</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “In this interview he granted the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to coincide with this year’s anniversary of the bomb blast, it is ‘behind the wall’ that Omeben said I hid myself. In his interview with The Sun Newspaper in 2012, he said I ran to the toilet before the bomb exploded. You can see the inconsistency in his wild allegations.</div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2015/10/Kayode-Soyinka-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; clear: left; color: #666699; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Kayode Soyinka" class="size-medium wp-image-192323" height="180" pagespeed_url_hash="3053572352" src="http://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2015/10/526x297xKayode-Soyinka-1-526x297.jpg.pagespeed.ic.r0CH6y1RIA.webp" style="border: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f0e7; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px;">Kayode Soyinka</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <br /> <figure class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_192323" style="background: rgb(243, 240, 231); border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 230, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 8px; border-top-color: rgb(166, 16, 17); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 526px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="padding: 0px 5px;"><br /></figcaption></figure><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0.5rem; margin-right: 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I am very disappointed and shocked that the Nigerian media, who knew and should still know the facts of what happened on that day gave Omeben powerful platform in mainstream media outlets in Nigerian to voice out this falsehood – and without calling me (a member of the Nigerian media family) to at least hear my own story. I am so disappointed particularly with the News Agency of Nigeria, the original vehicle of Omeben’s allegations, that it allowed itself – such an important national institution – to be used by Omeben to peddle such falsehood.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “As a veteran journalist myself, I am ashamed of NAN and those other newspapers who published that story without doing the professional thing of calling me to cross check the veracity of Omeben’s claims and allegations.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “So let me let Omeben know again – if he does not know already, and so that he does not keep repeating these erroneous allegations again when the anniversary comes up again next year – that Dele and I were the only two people in the study when Dele’s son Billy delivered the letter bomb to his father. It is very important here to remember that some unidentified people, who gave it to the security man at the gate, delivered the parcel bomb to Dele’s house.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The security man, while coming inside the compound with the parcel saw Billy (Dele’s son) on the way and gave it to him. When Billy came to the study and delivered the parcel to his father, Dele looked at it and handed it over to me. I looked at it and was able to vividly see the inscription on the padded envelope and handed it back to him. He received it back from me, moved his recycling chair back slightly to face the window on his left, he held the envelope with both hands, and tried to tear it through the top left-hand corner. He had not really opened it up, if he did it was only very slightly. And boom!! The bomb exploded!’</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “A big ball of fire occurred. It was a very powerful bomb explosion! The side of the envelope facing the iron-barred window blew up that window. The side facing Dele exploded on his chest and stomach. And the force that came out from the bottom of the envelope blew up his upper legs and badly affected lower part of his body. He did not die immediately. He died in the hospital.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Now, you see the vivid description I have just given you – 29 years after the gory incident. If I ran into the toilet or hid myself behind the wall before the bomb exploded like our Mr Omeben will like the world, and particularly Nigerians, to believe, and as he is trying hard, very hard, to label me as the suspect, how would I have been able to know all this, and give this graphic description.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “That partly was what the Oputa Panel missed when it investigated this matter because they did not see it necessary at that time to invite me to give evidence and I was not invited.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> So, Mr Omeben should get it now that I did not – and I repeat I did not – run away to toilet or hid behind a wall. I sat on my own chair right in front of Dele. Only the strong mahogany L-shaped desk on which we were eating our breakfast divided us. So I was literarily inches away from him. The huge desk must have mobbed the force of the blast that would have done the damage on me up.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “But the force was so powerful and so powerful enough to still lift me off my chair. The chair itself collapsed. I was thrown on the floor by the exit door. I was momentarily unconscious. But regained consciousness, flung my spectacles off my face, and staggered out of the room. Yes, I received no cut on my body, but my nightgown was spattered with blood – Dele’s blood – and I had burns on my forehead. And I smelt of burns.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I thank God for sparing my life. I could have been killed on that day. My survival was a Biblical miracle. I told you that I held the letter bomb myself! What of if I was the one that opened it? And I could easily have opened it myself. But I gave it back to Dele. That’s why I believe my survival was the work of God. My own time was not up yet.<br /> “What other allegation did Omeben level against me? He said, ‘Up till today Soyinka never appeared before the police’. Again, how can he be that ignorant? This is a blatant lie. And as a senior police officer, especially one who claims to be investigating this important incident, he should have known that I gave statements not once but twice to the same Nigerian Police he represents before I eventually left Nigeria. The first one was at the hospital where I was admitted – Dele’s body was next door to me. That interrogation by a senior police officer whose name I cannot recall took place on the spot when the incident was still fresh. It was inside the hospital. Dele Olojede was beside me – he is alive, go and ask him’.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Dele Olojede will recall that as questions were asked I could not hear anything. My both ears were solidly blocked. That was a serious effect of the blast. Then it was confirmed there at the hospital by the ear specialists that my ears were perforated. And this was also confirmed when I got back to the UK after the incident. For about five years after the bomb blast I had to endure continuous noise, humming, nonstop in my both ears. It was very irritating, but there was nothing I could do about it until it improved over the years and stopped’</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “And even up till today, 29 years after, I still carry the effect of the bomb blast in my ears because I can hear better on the right ear while my left ear, which was nearer to the blast is still weak. But who am I to complain about not hearing well, when it could have been worse and I could have lost everything completely, including my life.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The second statement I made when the police requested to see me again. It was made at the premises of Newswatch in Oregun Road in Lagos in the presence of the eminent lawyer Chief Gani Fawehinmi. I don’t know why Omeben did not know about this and he is accusing me wrongly. The statement I made, and the ones made by Funmilayo (Dele’s wife) and Billy, I believe, is now in public domain. Chief Gani Fawehinmi must have published them in the series of books he published on this subject before he died.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “So I don’t understand why Omeben should tell Nigerians such a blatant lies. That is wickedness. He does not fear God at all. Thank God I am alive and I can respond to him. Can you imagine if I had died with Dele, Omeben and cohorts would have succeeded in putting cotton wool on the faces of Nigerians and sold a different story completely to them to exonerate those who did it.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “He said again ‘I have enough evidence to quiz Soyinka now’. Well, Nigerians should help me beg Omeben, if he truly has those ‘enough evidence’, he should do us a big favour in Nigeria by releasing them to the public so that Nigerians can truly know who bombed us, Dele and I, on that day’.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Again, Omeben said: ‘They started to insinuate that the assassination was masterminded by Babangida, Akilu etc. They said that Akilu ought to have been investigated’. Who else could have had the expertise to assemble a letter bomb in 1986 Nigeria if not the military? He did not want to investigate Akilu who was calling Dele’s house frantically on Saturday and who was the last person Dele spoke to on telephone on that Sunday and the bomb was delivered into the house minutes after. He doesn’t want to investigate Akilu but it is convenient to want to investigate Soyinka the victim and survivor of the bomb blast. Oh, what an investigator?</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Lastly, I did not run away from Nigeria as he also claimed. I was in Nigeria throughout the controversies. My family was in the UK when the bomb occurred. A Good Samaritan went to our home in London and handed them airline tickets to come immediately to Nigeria and join me. We were all in Nigeria throughout. My wife attended Dele’s burial with me at his village near Auchi in Edo State. My pictures with my wife beside me were spread on the pages on national newspapers the following morning after the burial – with my ears still covered with cotton wool. Mr Omeben his pretending he did not know all this and still saying ‘Soyinka ran away to London’.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I eventually left Nigeria shortly after Dele’s burial, which, if my memory services me right, was about two months after the bombing. And we did not have to leave or “ran away” through the famous “Nadeco Route”. My wife and I, with our two little children, left through the Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos and no one stopped us from taking the British Caledonian flight to London. Members of our family, Newswatch editors and friends escorted us to the airport. It was in full glare of the public.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I hope with these comments I have made Nigerian people will come to know Chris Omeben for who he truly is – certainly not an investigator as he claims to be but an errand boy and mischief maker, representing the interests of his ‘Ogas at the Top’, the real culprits who sent us the letter bomb. He knows who the real suspects are. Nigerians know who the real suspects are. Certainly not me – Soyinka! He should beam his searchlight on Akilu and Togun and Babangida. May Dele Giwa’s soul continue to rest in peace,” Mr. Soyinka said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0.5rem 0.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Source: <b><a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/192320-dele-giwas-murder-soyinka-replies-ex-police-dig-omeben.html" target="_blank">Premium Times</a></b></div> <!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.premiumtimesng.com%2Fwp-content%2Ffiles%2F2015%2F10%2F389x518xchris-omeben1.jpg.pagespeed.ic.wZEi2Fqo-u.webp&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjB0T39dit4KmodcV6e_NabH16AldAMIkFgYIhCGqhxL-cjQgL0DVrAAQD3Z5KrJdd0bLz_2LS5fXwe-fnGR_F3HNF4ev9eqGtEz0Ka2pOdknZs8wsMaBv24jYqkAt1ClArqcRjdk-ytYmVBRlgwjjOPTSZvMz_84YGXRxCvGUqp88UiKx6RLu47N2Ulrrv8gt3PG3V0FXqK6S7a5CpA765qOQXMrWXnlQjIxTw1MT7=" -->

Dele Giwa’s Murder: Soyinka replies ex-Police DIG, Omeben

Omeben A former London Bureau chief of Newswatch, Kayode Soyinka, who was present when Dele Giwa, the co-founder of the magazine was bombed to death in 1986, has reacted to recent claims by a retired…

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Nigeria Absent During Security Meeting On Boko Haram, Diplomats Criticize Nigerian Leadership

<span style="background-color: white; color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.7000007629395px; line-height: 30.7999992370605px;">United Nations representatives and Chad Basin countries including Chad, Niger, and Cameroon met to discuss security and terrorism issues in the Lake Chad Basin area, especially Boko Haram, on Friday according to Reuters news. However, it was learned that Nigeria was not present during this meeting organized on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.7px; line-height: 30.8px; margin-bottom: 16.5px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span class="ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin: 0px auto 28px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><span class="block-story-object-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><img alt="" class="media-element file-embedded" src="http://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/Buhari-in-france.jpg?itok=0K6E81q4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 500px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></span><span class="block-story-object-content" style="background: rgb(34, 35, 35); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 14px;"><span class="block-story-object-content-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span class="block-story-object-content-header-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #898c8d; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-shadow: none;">President Muhammadu Buhari speaking in Paris</span></span><span class="block-story-object-content-footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="block-story-object-content-footer-item block-story-object-content-footer-item-attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #66696a; display: block; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 15px; text-shadow: none;">State House Photos</span></span></span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.7px; line-height: 30.8px; margin-bottom: 16.5px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-shadow: none;"> This meeting happened after the United States announced it would provide $6.8 million in funding for the region on Friday. It has been reported that UN and international diplomats were critical of Nigeria’s decision not to attend this meeting, particularly given the opportunity hold multilateral talks between the UN and other member nations.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.7px; line-height: 30.8px; margin-bottom: 16.5px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-shadow: none;"> SaharaReporters has also learned that Nigeria’s absence from this meeting has created a stir amongst the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations, located in New York City, and members of President Buhari’s delegation because of the negative media attention it received.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.7px; line-height: 30.8px; margin-bottom: 16.5px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-shadow: none;"> One source speaking with SaharaReporters said, “at the very least the National Security Adviser should have been present at the meeting.” Major General (Rtd) Monguno, the National Security Adviser to President Buhari, accompanied President Buhari to the UN on a lean 27-man delegation.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.7px; line-height: 30.8px; margin-bottom: 16.5px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-shadow: none;"> SaharaReporters spoke to a spokesman for President Buhari who said that, “we have been part of many meetings about this Boko Haram issue, including those with [the UN Aid Chief] Stephen O’Brien.” The spokesman said that President Buhari has been part of many meetings and that there are far more meetings than he would be able to attend.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.7px; line-height: 30.8px; margin-bottom: 16.5px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-shadow: none;"> “We are offering a rebuttal to [those news stories] and want to say the President has shown a commitment to addressing security issues,” the spokesman added.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.7px; line-height: 30.8px; margin-bottom: 16.5px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-shadow: none;"> President Buhari stated during his inaugural address that his administration would end the Boko Haram menace in northeast Nigeria. As of last week, however, the Nigerian 7th Army Division Spokesman, Colonel IT Gusau, announced that all unauthorized animal and vehicle traffic was banned in Borno State due to fear of Boko Haram attacks.</div>

Nigeria Absent During Security Meeting On Boko Haram, Diplomats Criticize Nigerian Leadership

United Nations representatives and Chad Basin countries including Chad, Niger, and Cameroon met to discuss security and terrorism issues in the Lake Chad Basin area, especially Boko Haram, on Friday a…

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