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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