fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours agoMy father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, died fighting for a clean Nigeria. Thirty years on, it's time to stop sucking on the dirty teat of the oil cash cow
Earlier this year, my father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and his eight colleagues, known collectively as the Ogoni Nine, were pardoned for a crime they never committed. After peacefully campaigning against environmental degradation of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the oil industry, they were imprisoned by the military dictatorship on false charges of treason and incitement to murder, following a trial condemned by the international community as a sham.
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