CHAPTER
ONE
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background to the
Study
Investigative journalism is the aspect of journalism that
deals with special investigation into special issues, events that is of high
significance, such crime, corruption, political issue, terrorism, and others
especially about people in political positions or people of high profile. This
aspect of journalism is considered to be tedious, tactful and dangerous
adventure because many investigative journalists tend to be exposed to
kidnapping, killing, raping, threaten and the popular case is that of Dele Giwa
who was killed on the 19th of October, 1986 in his house (No 25, Talabi
Crescent, off Talabi street, Adeniyi Jones Avenue) by a letter bomb which was
said to be delivered by Buba Marwa, a former military administrator of Lagos
State.
His death came as a result of investigating a drug case
involving Nigeria and the US. Dele Giwa was a famous and renowned journalist in
Nigeria. He was the founder and Editor-in-chief of the Newswatch magazine which
was established alongside journalists like Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu
Mohammed in 1984.
Dele Giwa was known to be a journalist who sticks unto the
truth and also take his time in exposing the corrupt and illegal deeds of the
government, and this earned him the people’s recognition, ultimate support and
trust. The government saw Dele Giwa as an impediment and a threat to its
obnoxious activities and saw his elimination as the only way to avoid being
exposed. www.wikipedia.com.
In its 1956 history, the Nigeria news media has evolved from
endorsing colonial missionary catechism through the spirited advocacy of the
struggle for Independence and moved its post indigene mission and defining its
role with the state, it is imperative to note that press had played and is
still playing a key role in Nigeria. The mass media is therefore the bedrock on
which the government fabric is built. Mass Media is the channel through which
the military and civilian government expresses their policy. Alex (2000).
Since 1960, the press has been asserting its relevance to
the evolution of the Nigeria state although 29 of those forty seven (47) years,
it has operated under the malevolence of increasingly repressive military
regimes.
It is vital tradition of lively reportage. Remarkable on the
African content was natured within a political culture that tolerated dissent,
especially as a mechanism for balancing various ethnic and political forces
battling for the centre of the Nigeria state. Up till date, conflict between
the media and the state were resolved through back door negotiation or judicial
intervention although many journalists have been lined and others jailed for
carrying out their civic and constitutional responsibility, some decreases were
promulgated by the military government Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) whose
members include government and independent press. Ogungbamigbe (2004).
Again, the military regime, Babangida particularly targets
the Nigeria media in their classic role as public watchdog and instrument of
check and balance against government excesses. In a sophisticated carrot and
stick strategy, the government, corrupted many members of the press, terrified
some and sent some in exile, it was under this kind of military regime that top
editor, Dele Giwa was assassinated with a letter bomb in 1986 and various
publication were prescribed by the executive decree. Dare (2000).
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