Saro-Wiwa: Groups Renew Demand For Justice

Thirty years aft the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 different Ogoni leaders, civilian nine organisations person demanded justness to prevail astatine the office of the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA).

Speaking connected behalf of the 30th Anniversary Planning Committee, Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Rev. Dr. Nnimmo Bassey, described the 1995 execution arsenic a judicial execution that continues to haunt Nigeria’s conscience.

According to him, it is simply a deliberate, cold, and calculated enactment of authorities unit designed to soundlessness information and crush dissent.

Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight—Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine-were, successful Bassey’s words, “ were murdered not due to the fact that they disobeyed immoderate known laws, but due to the fact that they exposed oppression and questioned a mindless establishment.”

He said they were punished for defending quality rights and biology justice, for daring to reason multinational lipid companies and authorities collusion.

Central to Saro-Wiwa’s activism was the ideology helium called ‘Erectism’ which, according to Bassey, “envisioned taste autonomy, assets control, and biology stewardship arsenic foundations for sustainable improvement and nationalist unity.”

He affirmed that Saro-Wiwa “believed nature’s resources were not to beryllium destroyed, but managed to prolong beingness and taste identity.”

The activistic underscored Saro-Wiwa’s enactment of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), turning what was erstwhile a determination contented into a nationalist and planetary request for justice.

“He placed the Ogoni ecological genocide firmly astatine the centre of nationalist debate. He was a selfless person who fought much for his radical than for himself.”

He stressed that his ideas lived connected portion Saro-Wiwa’s beingness was taken. “Even if helium were killed, his ideas would not die. His decease birthed renewed struggle, consciousness, and inspiration for a livable environment.”