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Late Ogoni environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa Turns 74 Today! (Posthumous)

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa

Ken was a true freedom fighter.

RIP

Ftc for lalasticlala thread... Oshe baddest

Eyaahhh.. The ogoni activist. Rest on

Oya go down, lemme go up

Aminat508:
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Na wa o, e be like say him family no gree put hand for politics cos by now his son or daughter for don dey House of rep according to 9ja setting.
Anyway, I can't wish him a happy birthday since he's dead, but its good we still remember him.

Ken was a true freedom fighter. Different from the hypocrites loitering around the Niger-Delta of today.

That is the true son of the Niger Delta and not all those thieving thieves like ASARI TOKUBO, GEJ, DEIZIANI and a host of other criminals that are parading themselves all around now.


We Niger Deltas are strongly behind BUHARI / OSINBAJO

QUOTE ME ANYWHERE

Well, considering the Ogoni land is still in total disrepair, the locals are still prone to lung cancer (from the pollution) and one of the panelists at the kangaroo court who executed him (Hamid Ali) is currently occupying a nice position under Buhari's new administration, all I've got to wish Mr. Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa is a Good Morning.

R.I.P.

Happy birthday sir! In your next world learn that betrayal isn't cool

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make i comment beffore u push am go normal place
hapi birthday to him
bt y we no de rememba him death day

Maledictions go to the late Abacha today again

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Happy birthday great fighter

The death of this man, among many others sins of Nigeria, is hunting this nation. Happy birthday as you rest in peace.

He is indeed a great man and a true fighter

The dead is dead is dead. Abeg click like if its your first time of hearing this name.

RIP

What is the meaning of birthday

Wow

Mehn dat man na sure dude, love him he is a legend.

Used to love him but not anymore after watching a documentary of how he betrayed the igbo's during the civil war..

"Akien akien pia Ogoni akien . . ."

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Late Ogoni environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa Turns 74 Today! (Posthumous)





https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa

see handsome man, killed and rekilled by the foolanis because of oyel, God go punish demdem all

some deaths are sweet

rest in your abandoned properties, ewu

EdCure:
Ken was a true freedom fighter. Different from the hypocrites loitering around the Niger-Delta of today.

I don't know how different he was from say Chief Clark who after parading himself as GEJ sole adviser now realizes that the man was infact weak and failed in his duty as a president.
Saro Wiwa enjoyed what eastern Nigeria had to offer in terms of education and protection, yet he was proud to describe his own sabotaging activities against his own people, he led the abandoned property saga, whereby Nigerians woke up one morning and claimed other people's properties as their own.
His apologies to Ojukwu were to little too late, just like Adaka Boro, and maybe Chief Clark, Ken Saro Wiwa belongs to hell fire.
People are better advised to read up on Ken Saro Wiwa before celebrating him in anyway.

He got served his own plate of treachery....

He was always lick the aşs of his huasa fulani masters till the day he revolted they killed him like chicken.

Until he or his family return the property they are currently occupying on Aggrey road in town axis of ph to the rightful Igbo owners he soul will neva rest in peace.

Freedom fighter my foot..