Nigeria Hangs Profit-Poet

Nigerian dictator, Gen Sani Abacha, did exactly as he pleased when he ordered the execution by hanging of writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others in 1995. Saro-Wiwa and friends were taken in chains to prison and hanged. Abacha planted four cases of murder on them and called them killers and murderers. In truth Saro-Wiwa was opposing the oil industry in southern Nigeria, saying oil majors were polluting his homeland and preventing members of his tribe, the Ogoni, from getting a fair share of oil profits. Abacha was afraid that Saro-Wiwa would drive Shell away. The hangings forced the Commonwealth to expel Nigeria. Abacha died soon after, and his Defence Chief Major General Abdulsalami Abubakar subsequently rose to power. By 1999, Saro Wiwa was forgotten and Nigeria was back in the Commonwealth.

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Source:- IIPM-Editorial,2006