Investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo has said he has made peace with mortality and that not even death threats can stop him from doing his job.

Soyombo, in this interview with The PUNCH spoke on his passion for investigative journalism and the dangers of the job, amongst other things.

When asked whether he sometimes receives death threats, the award-winning journalist who has worked on a couple of sensitive but interesting investigative pieces including, “UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION: Filth, stench, bribery, corruption at Nigerian mortuaries and cemeteries”, confirmed he does receive death threats.

Soyombo, a guest trainer at the 2023 Punch Immersion Training Programme for journalists in July, said that although he receives death threats, they can not stop him from his job.

“Death threats can’t stop me from doing my work; any reality of life, any fact or life can’t stop me from doing my work.

“If you don’t talk about death your entire life, you are still going to die, you should better make peace with it and that’s why people live their lives oppressing people, abusing power, stealing all the money because they never imagine that one day they are going to go and they can’t leave with all these things.

“So I made peace with my mortality long ago and for that reason, it’s not something to use against me to make me stop doing my work,” Soyombo said.

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