WE’RE ALL LIKE CICERO, TRAPPED! IN THE NEST OF KILLERS:
THE BOLA IGE ASSASSINATION SAGA - 6 YEARS AFTER By BISIKAY
"Nigeria is not cursed. Those who get to power by false or fraudulent means curse themselves and are cursed by the people. Those who collaborate with evil systems and tyranny curse themselves and are cursed by the people."
Uncle BOLA IGE (1930 – 2001) Sunday Tribune, 21 April 1996
Exactly Six Years Ago Today, Chief Bola Ige Was Assassinated. I Have Just Completed A Book On The Yet To Be Resolved Murder Drama. The Book Is A Chronicle Of The Saga From 2001 To Date. It Is Titled:
WE’RE ALL LIKE CICERO, TRAPPED! IN THE NEST OF KILLERS
HERE IS THE INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK:
“ THE STORY BEING RECOUNTED IN THIS CHRONICLE IS TRULY TOTALLY TRAGIC:
- CHIEF AJIBOLA JAMES IDOWU IGE WAS MURDERED, TO ORDER, ON SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER 2001
- SHORTLY AFTER, HIS POORLY BROTHER, GEORGE IGE, WITHOUT WHOSE SAKE BOLA IGE WOULD NOT HAVE REMAINED IN IBADAN THE NIGHT HE WAS KILLED, ALSO DIED
- DURING THE TRIAL OF HIS ACCUSED KILLERS, JUSTICE ATINUKE IGE, HIS HONOURABLE AND DUTIFUL WIFE, DIED SUDDENLY, APPARENTLY DUE TO ACTS OF BETRAYAL
- BEFORE THE TORTUOUS TRIAL COULD BE CYNICALLY CONCLUDED, HIS MAIN PROSECUTING LAWYER, CHIEF DEBO AKANDE, DIED UNEXPECTEDLY.
- MR YINUSA ADENIYI, THE SELF-CONFESSED KILLER OF CHIEF BOLA GE DIED IN POLICE CUSTODY AFTER BEING DETAINED AS HOSTAGE FOR 3 MISERABLE YEARS
NOW, SIX YEARS AFTER, THE BOLA IGE MURDER SAGA REMAINS UNRESOLVED, THE CASE IS YET TO BE DISOLVED AS NEW DIMENSIONS CONTINUE TO SURFACE AROUND THE ASSASINATION-PROSECUTION DRAMA OF THE LATE MINISTER OF JUSTICE & ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NIGERIA.
AND, SOME OF THE DRAMATIS PERSONAE HAVE SINCE TRANSITED, SOME PHSICALLY LIKE LATE CHIEF SM AFOLABI, WHO WAS REPORTED TO HAVE MADE SOME REGRETFUL CONFESSIONS ON HIS UNTIMELY DEATH BED, ON HIS OWN AND HIS PARTY AND PRESIDEENCY’S ROLES IN THE MURDER SAGA.
SOME HAVE SINCE LOST THEIR EXALTED POSITIONS IN POWER, FROM PRESIDENTIAL, GUBERNATORIAL, MINISTERIAL, AMBASADORIAL, TO POLITICAL-OFFICIAL, HERE AND THERE, INCLUDING POLICE MEN/WOMEN, & JUDGES. IT IS TIME TO CHALLENGE OR EVEN PROVOKE THEM TO FACE THE MUSIC
THERE ARE STILL MANY QUESTIONS FOR THESE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY obasanjo TO ANSWER:
- WHY DID obasanjo INVITE OMISORE AND BABA AKANDE TO ABUJA THE DAY OF THE GRUESOME ASSASINATION, WHEN BOLA IGE WAS MURDERED IN IBADAN, IF HE DID NOT KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT THE MURDER…
- WHY DID obasanjo HURRIEDLY SACK THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, MUSILIU SMITH, WHO WAS TO ADDRESS A WORLD PRESS ON THEIR FINDINGS ON THE MURDER INVESTIGATION, IF HE WAS NOT TRYING TO PERVERT JUSTICE…
- WHY DID obasanjo UNCEREMONIOUSLY REMOVE MIKE OKIRO (NOW THE NEW AG IGP OF NIGERIA) AND ABIMBOLA OJOMO (AIG) FROM INVESTIGATING THE MURDER, IF HE WAS NOT TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING…
- WHY DID obasanjo ALLOW OMISORE, THE ACCUSED SUSPECTED SPONSOR OF THE MURDER, TO BECOME A PDP SENATOR FROM AGODI PRISON, IF NOT AS A REWARD FOR HIS DEED, EVEN WHEN THE PARTY CHAIRMAN, AUDU OGBE, VEHEMENTLY PROTESTED…
- WHY DID obasanjo ALLOW THE TRIAL TO BECOME A FARCIAL CHARADE AND BETRAYED TRUSTS AND PROMISES TO THE FAMILY LADING TO THE DEMISE OF JUSTICE ATINUKE IGE…
- WHY DID obasanjo AT THE WILIGHT OF HIS ACCURSED PRESIDENCY TWISTWED THE TALE WITH THE ADDITION OF THE MASQUERADE AND DRUG BARON DIMENSION TO THE MURDER SAGA…
WHAT ALSO, WILL ALHAJI ABUBAKAR ATIKU LIKE TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT HIS SORDID ROLE IN ASSISTING THE PERPETRATORS OF THE BOLA IGE MURDER AND THEIR ASCENDANCY IN THE POLITICAL LADDER OF THE PDP. ATIKU, THE VICE PRESIDENT THEN WAS VERY WELL MENTIONED IN THE SAGA. NOW THAT THEIR HOUSE OF PDP HAS FALLEN, WILL ATIKU COME CLEAN AND CLEAR HIS NAME, IF SO HE CAN?...
THERE ARE ALL THESE QUESTIONS AND MORE WHICH IF AND WHEN THEY ARE ANSWERED THEN WE SHALL BE GETTING CLOSER TO UNRAVELLING OPENLY AND TRUTHFULLY THE BOLA IGE SAGA.
I HOPE THIS BOOK HELPS TO PRICK PEOPLE’S CONSCIENCE, IF THEY STILL HAVE ANY LEFT. SHAME!
LET US ALSO HOPE THAT THEY WILL LIKE TO REOPEN THE LEGAL PROCESS BY SUING US …” (ENDS)
We have since learnt that the new President, UMARU MUSA YAR ADUA, has ordered the IG, MIKE OKIRO, to re-open INVESTIGATION to all politically motivated MURDERS in NIGERIA during the locust years of obasanjo’s PRESIDENCY: 1999 to 2007.
We therefore believe, as predicted, that 2008 is the year that BOLA IGE’s killers are CAUGHT.
LET ME CLOSE WITH THE EPILOGUE TO THE BOOK :
SO, obasanjo, WHO KILLED BOLA IGE?
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it obasanjo
He who presided over the whole sickening saga
He who felt threatened by BOLA IGE’s second presidential ambition
And he who barbarically benefitted most from the sordid affair...
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it ATIKU
The second half of the PRESIDENCY
That was repeatedly mentioned by Fryo
As the almighty facilitator of the Masterminds…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it late SM AFOLABI
He who protected the killers
Being the Minister of Internal Affairs
And who had an axe to grind with the late sage...
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it OMISORE
He who said BOLA IGE was the only impediment
On his way to Osun State House
The one who lied about Fryo:
“I don’t know that man from Adam!”…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it THUGFATHER ADEDIBU
He who is the ‘wrongman’ of Yoruba ‘politrics’
And he who has made financial gains as the master mercenary
Fot the army of the killers’ nest called PDP…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it SENATOR LADOJA
He who governed over the OMISORE TRIAL Part 2
And whose ‘Atoroje General’ scattered the case with: nolle prosequi!...
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it OLUBUSE
He whose palace was used as the launching pad
And theatre for the dress rehersal…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it CHIEF LAM ADE
He who was the AD governor of OYO State
Under whose watch the sordid drama unfolded
And he who allowed obasanjo to get away with it
Because of a second term
A second term which obasanjo still stole from him…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it CHIEF OSOBA
Who as an AREMU, wanted another AREMU
Continue with his OPPRESSIVE regime, negotiated away
Chief BOLA IGE’s legacy…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it CHIEF AKANDE
He who was BOLA IGE’s main man
And still could not revenge the man’s death…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it AFENIFERE
Those who gave away YORUBALAND
To a PRODIGAL bastard
For the sake of imaginary positions…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it YOU
You who have nothing to gain from BOLA IGE’s murder…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it ME
Who has something to lose if BOLA IGE dies…
So, who killed BOLA IGE?
Was it all of US
We who have allowed these known killers to continue
To be getting away with murders…
So, obasanjo, who killed BOLA IGE?
WATCHOUT:
THE KILLERS WILL PAY THE PRICE, SOON!
WE ALL KNOW WHO KILLED BOLA IGE
DONT WE?
NOW, PLEASE HELP JUDGE THESE SHAMELESS MUDERERS AS THE CASE IS IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION, FOR ONLY A WHILE, NOT FOREVER
MESSAGE TO THE KILLERS OF BOLA IGE:
ACCORDING TO YORUBA COSMOSOPHY, YOU MURDERERS WILL PAY THE PRICE BEFORE
CHIEF BOLA IGE’S 7 TH MEMORIAL ANNIVERSARY,
BY 23 DECEMBER, 2008.
EYIN TI E PA BOLA IGE
BI E BA TI KI’JE, E WA GBO O:
E O NI KI’JENJE (ODUN MEJE) O,
ASE! YI O SE!! KO NI S’AI SE DANDAN!!!
EYIN TI E PA BOLA IGE…
ORO NLA LE DA
ORO NLA LE DA
EYIN TI E PA BOLA IGE
TI E JE O DAGBA
ORO NLA LE DA
IDAJO YIN FERE DE
IDAJO YIN FERE DE
EYIN TI E PA BOLA IGE
TI E JE O DAGBA
IDAJO YIN FERE DE
IKU ORO LE MA KU
IKU ORO LE MA KU
EYIN TI E PA BOLA IGE
TI E JE O DAGBA
IKU ORO LE MA KU
By BISIKAY, London Sunday, 23 December 2007 drbisikay@yahoo.com
BISIKAY, A GLOBAL ANALYST, IS DIRECTOR, WORLDGOVWATCH, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK