Make my father’s murderers uncomfortable, Ige’s son tells Tinubu

Muyiwa Ige, son of the late Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to revisit his father’s murder and ensure that those responsible are made uncomfortable.

Speaking on Inside Sources with Laolu Akande on Channels Television, Ige’s son recounted the harrowing experiences of his father and the unfulfilled dreams that were violently cut short in December 2001.

“Honestly, if I had my way, I would have thought that it would have been GCON that he would have been given, the fact that he was assassinated while in service. The killers are still walking. Make those that did it uncomfortable. I plead with the government to relook at the case as well as other unsolved murders over the years,” he said.

“My father was taken to the worst prison in Nigeria, in Makurdi. Nobody knew where he was for 63 days.

“He wanted to run for president. He had a plan. He felt their generation had to make things right in this country. When (military head of state General) Abdusalami said he was leaving, he saw an opportunity to reshape Nigeria.

“Unfortunately, his colleagues decided to checkmate him because they felt that they couldn’t control him. Thereafter, he joined the Obasanjo government. Then, he was assassinated on the 23rd of December 2001, which is a precursor to Black Christmas.”

Beyond recognition for his father, Ige’s son challenged the federal and state governments to focus on reviving the fundamentals of human capital development, which he argued have been abandoned in favour of short-term, flashy infrastructure projects.

“And we are not saying that that is not important,” he explained, “but I would say that they concentrate more on the optics, and the fundamentals of human capital development have been jettisoned.”