Born:10 October 1941 Bori , Nigeria
Died: 10 November 1995 (aged 54)
Cause of death: Executed
Ethnicity: Ogoni
Occupation: Writer
Movement: Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
Awards: Right Livelihood Award Goldman Environmental Prize

Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television
producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland , in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. Initially as spokesperson, and then as president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company. He was also an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government , which he viewed as reluctant to enforce environmental regulations on the foreign petroleum companies operating in the area.

At the peak of his non-violent campaign, he was tried by a special military tribunal for allegedly masterminding the gruesome murder of Ogoni chiefs at a pro-government meeting, and hanged in 1995 by the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. His execution provoked international outrage and resulted in Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations for over three years.

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Nnamdi KANU comes to mind, is Nnamdi KANU heading this same way? time is coming when the FG will be too ashamed to free KANU because of all the shameful attempt to nail KANU.

can history repeat itself?

Thanks Joel, you're absolutely correct. The kangaroo trials of Ken Saro wiwa is what we're witnessing here in Nnamdi Kanu case. The murder casa against Saro Wiwa was just to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it. But the society are more informed now than before.