We Had To Reassemble His Skeleton' - Ken Saro Wiwa's Daughter Says As She Celebrate Her Fathers 25th Anniversary

Noo Saro-Wiwa, the daughter of Nigerian author, television manufacturer, environmental activist, Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa has taken to her Facebook web page to have a good time the twenty fifth anniversary of her father who became performed by way of the Nigerian Military Government on tenth November 1995 along eight others in Port Harcourt.

Noo Saro-Wiwa disclosed that they had to exhume the remains of her father, who changed into buried in an unmarked grave, with their personal arms a long time later in an effort to deliver him a dignified burial. She also criticized the Nigerian Government for their failure to provide her father an legit pardon.

The then President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent marketing campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by using the operations of the multinational petroleum enterprise, particularly the Royal Dutch Shell business enterprise.

At the peak of his non-violent marketing campaign, he was tried with the aid of a special navy tribunal for allegedly masterminding the gruesome homicide of Ogoni chiefs at a pro-authorities assembly, and hanged in 1995 through the army dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. His execution provoked worldwide outrage and resulted in Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations for over three years.

25 years in the past today, my father Ken Saro-Wiwa and his eight colleagues have been murdered by way of Nigeria’s military regime after a sham trial. Their best ‘crime’ became to peacefully pursue human rights for the Ogoni people and to marketing campaign towards oil spills within the oil-rich Niger Delta. 

Their bodies were buried in an unmarked grave for almost a decade. When our own family subsequently obtained my father’s stays we had to reassemble his skeleton with our own hands earlier than giving him a dignified burial. 

To these days the Nigerian government has now not granted him an reliable pardon. It speaks volumes approximately our so-known as democracy. No authorities can call itself civilised or claim any ethical authority whilst it refuses to exonerate those innocent guys. Black lives will depend out of doors of Africa most effective once they count number in Africa itself. #pardonkensarowiwa #pardontheogoni9