By Kehinde Okeowo
Ayodele Dele-Giwa, daughter of the renowned journalist Dele Giwa, has said her father would have been proud of the EndSARs protest if he was alive.
She made this known via two tweets she posted on her Twitter page, yesterday and today while remembering her late father.
According to the younger Giwa, all she knew about her father came from stories from the family and pictures, because he died when she was still a year old.
The podcast host of “girls on girls” also said his dad would be proud of Nigerian youth as they commemorate the EndSARs protest.
She finally said her father would have been 73 years this year if he was alive.
“I was 1(year-old) when he died, so all I know are stories from family and pictures. But one thing I am sure of: he would be so proud of what the “lazy” Nigerian youth have been doing over the past 11 days. He would have been 73 this year, & he would have come out to protest with the youth.
“March 16, 1947 – October 19, 1986. Continue to Rest In Peace, Daddy.” She tweeted.
Dele Giwa was born on March 16, 1947, in Ile-Ife, and after his primary and secondary education in Ile-life, he traveled to the USA where he received a BA in English from Brooklyn College in 1977.
Giwa married an American nurse in 1974, before marrying Nigerian politician, Florence Ita Giwa, a marriage that lasted for 10 months. His last marriage was to Olufunmilayo Olaniyan in 1984, and they were married until he died in 1986.
He worked for The New York Times as a news assistant for four years after which he relocated to Nigeria to work with Daily Times, before joining fellow journalists Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed founded Newswatch in 1984.
Dele Giwa was assassinated two days after he was invited for questioning by DSS by a parcel bomb in his home at Ikeja, Lagos, while in his study on Sunday, October 19, 1986.
