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Ken Saro-wiwa Foresaw The Emergence Of Niger-delta Avengers! by cyojunior1(m): 8:32am On May 24, 2016
KEN SARO-WIWA FORESAW THE EMERGENCE OF NIGER
DELTA AVENGERS!
KEN SARO-WIWA AS A sooth-sayer
“My lord,
We all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas.
Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live
on a richly endowed land, distressed by their political
marginalization and economic strangulation, angered by
the devastation of their land, their ultimate heritage,
anxious to preserve their right to life and to a decent living,
and determined to usher to this country as a whole a fair
and just democratic system which protects everyone and
every ethnic group and gives us all a valid claim to human
civilization, I have devoted my intellectual and material
resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total
belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or
intimidated. I have no doubt at all about the ultimate
success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations
which I and those who believe with me may encounter on
our journey. Neither imprisonment nor death can stop our
ultimate victory.

I repeat that we all stand before history. I and my
colleagues are not the only ones on trial. Shell is here on
trial and it is as well that it is represented by counsel said to
be holding a watching brief. The Company has, indeed,
ducked this particular trial, but its day will surely come and
the lessons learnt here may prove useful to it for there is no
doubt in my mind that the ecological war that the Company
has waged in the Delta will be called to question sooner
than later and the crimes of that war be duly punished.

The
crime of the Company's dirty wars against the Ogoni people
will also be punished.
On trial also is the Nigerian nation, its present rulers and
those who assist them. Any nation which can do to the
weak and disadvantaged what the Nigerian nation has done
to the Ogoni, loses a claim to independence and to freedom
from outside influence. I am not one of those who shy away
from protesting injustice and oppression, arguing that they
are expected in a military regime. The military do not act
alone. They are supported by a gaggle of politicians,
lawyers, judges, academics and businessmen, all of them
hiding under the claim that they are only doing their duty,
men and women too afraid to wash their pants of urine.
We all stand on trial, my lord, for by our actions we have
denigrated our Country and jeopardized the future of our
children. As we subscribe to the sub-normal and accept
double standards, as we lie and cheat openly, as we protect
injustice and oppression, we empty our classrooms,
denigrate our hospitals, fill our stomachs with hunger and
elect to make ourselves the slaves of those who ascribe to
higher standards, pursue the truth, and honour justice,
freedom, and hard work. I predict that the scene here will
be played and replayed by generations yet unborn. Some
have already cast themselves in the role of villains, some are
tragic victims, some still have a chance to redeem
themselves. The choice is for each individual.
I predict that the denouement of the riddle of the Niger
delta will soon come. The agenda is being set at this trial.
Whether the peaceful ways I have favoured will prevail
depends on what the oppressor decides, what signals it
sends out to the waiting public.
In my innocence of the false charges I face Here, in my utter
conviction, I call upon the Ogoni people, the peoples of the
Niger delta, and the oppressed ethnic minorities of Nigeria
to stand up now and fight fearlessly and peacefully for their
rights. History is on their side. God is on their side. For the
Holy Quran says in Sura 42, verse 41: "All those that fight
when oppressed incur no guilt, but Allah shall punish the
oppressor." Come the day.”
-Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Dying Declaration@the Tribunal that
sentenced Him to Death,
Where Justice Auta was the Judge[now Chief Judge of Fed,
High Court, Nigeria for job well done], and J.B.Daodu,SAN,
the former President of the NBA, was the Prosecutor &
Persecutor,while O.C.J.Okocha,SAN held Watching Brief for
S-HELL.
Tell them they didn't kill him. SARO Wiwa lives on.
Source :https://m./1574150926192988?view=permalink&id=1702009296740483&_rdr
Re: Ken Saro-wiwa Foresaw The Emergence Of Niger-delta Avengers! by gisthit: 8:32am On May 24, 2016
Ok,all is well.
Re: Ken Saro-wiwa Foresaw The Emergence Of Niger-delta Avengers! by BayLord01(m): 8:44am On May 24, 2016
Tell him in his grave that we will deal with them, Rip to King Saro wiwa, the guy was unjustly killed

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