Muyiwa Ige, the son of former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, says his father’s unresolved assassination would continue to be a blight on the nation’s image.
He spoke as friends and family on September 13th commemorated the 90th post-humous birthday of the Cicero of Esa Oke, who was gunned down in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, on December 23, 2001.
The younger Ige disclosed that he was more than disappointed that the culprits have not been apprehended and made to face the law, nearly 20 years after.
“The truth of the matter is that there must be closure. Any sensible government would want to at least, unravel the so–called mysterious deaths or assassinations of various personalities – my father, (the late Bola Ige), Pa Alfred Rewane, Dele Giwa, and a host of others.
“It will always be a dent in the history of this country, if those murder cases are not solved,” Saturday Punch quoted him to have said.
Going back memory lane, Muyiwa Ige revealed that days before the incident, his father had been warned that some persons were plotting to eliminate him.
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He said that his father did not take the warning seriously, insisting that he had no problems with anybody that could warrant an attempt on his life.
“On December 15, 2001, his cap was removed at the (Ooni’s) palace in Ife. Somebody came to meet us just about an hour before that they heard some people were planning to ambush and kill him, but his demeanor was that he didn’t have problem with anyone, and that no such thing could ever happen and I also believed it. No one could have thought that this thing (assassination) could have happened in his private space.
“He was a man of the people and his house was almost like a town hall. Anybody could just walk in and he would attend to them.
“But the question to ask is what has it profited any of them that executed him or arranged for some people to kill him or were part of the dastardly act?
“It has not profited them and forever, their conscience will prick them. He who lives by the sword will definitely be consumed by the sword. But I thank God for my father, I thank God for my mother and I thank God for the gracious legacies they left behind.”