Abacha memo approving execution of Ken
Saro-Wiwa & others.
In November 1995, while an overwhelming
international outcry mounted against the
execution of the Ogoni leader, Ken Saro-Wiwa and his colleagues, defiant military dictator, Sani Abacha, backed by a small band of military officers, convinced themselves that executing
them, swiftly, was the best way to resolve the
Ogoni unrest “once and for all”, and to make it
clear to Nigerians and the world the authoritarian
regime was no weakling. A recording of the final meeting, where the
decision to hang Mr. Saro-Wiwa and eight of his
associates was taken, said, two days before the
execution, Mr. Abacha told members of the
Provisional Ruling Council, PRC, the regime’s
highest decision making body, that the activists deserved no sympathy, and that hanging them
would stem further discontent and prove to the
world the regime was bold and courageous. “He was of the view that no sympathy should be
shown on the convicts so that the sentence will
be a lesson to everybody. He stated that the
Ogoni issue had lingered on for a very long time
and should be addressed once and for all,” Mr.
Abacha was quoted in the document now available exclusively to PREMIUM TIMES.

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Hey, sad to remind us of one of Abacha's achievements wrt NigerDelta. E don tey wey nyash dey back. Injustice has never been a new word in Nigerian dictionary as its one of the pillars of our 'nationhood' and foundation of our 'unity'.
Poo happens, we keep finding ways to put up with them. . .

I wish Abacha is alive to see that "Ogoni issue" and other issues are much alive.

To kill Sarowiwa was easy, but that has not made Nigeria "one".