Tam David-West is dead

Outspoken scholar and former minister of Petroleum, Prof. tam David-West, has passed on.
Although the circumstance of the death hs yet to be established, family sources said he died after spending 11 days at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan.
He was 83.
As a minister under the Ibrahim Babangida junta, he was under controversial circumstances, prosecuted for receiving a wristwatch gift, with some saying his ordeal was due to his falling out with the General.