Nobel Laureat, Wola Soyinka has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose the outcome of findings on Chief Bola Ige’s death.
Soyinka made his demand at an event organised by the Bola Ige Justice Centre in commemoration of the late legal luminary’s death.
Chief Bola Ige was assassinated by yet to be identified gunmen at his residence in Ibadan on the 23rd of December, 2001.
Professor Wola Soyinka reminded Buhari of his promise of opening an enquiry into the spate of political assignations witnessed in the country in recent years.
He stated that Nigerians will not relent in demanding an explanation for the murder of Ige, expose the killers and identify the conspirators involved in the crime.
In a letter addressed to Mrs Funso Adegbola, daughter of late Ige, Soyinka said: “An eleventh-hour, sadly insurmountable impediment, alas, prevents my joining you on this bitter-sweet occasion. Bitter for obvious reasons, but also a source of joy, since it provides yet another opportunity for celebrating the passage of a remarkable individual – your late father — through the lives of the rest of us yet living. Let us be unstinting in our sustaining reminiscences.
“I particularly regret my absence, as it provides a mandatory, inescapable occasion for directing a question at the nation’s current leader, President Buhari, a DEMAND that the entire nation, no matter the political inclination of her citizens, is morally obliged to make.“
Chief James Ajibola Idowu Ige, SAN (13 September 1930 – 23 December 2001), simply known as Bola Ige, was a Nigerian lawyer and politician.
He also served as Federal Minister of Justice for Nigeria. He was murdered in December 2001.
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