Reports reaching OYOGIST.com shows that the daughter late environmental activist, Noo Saro-Wiwa has explained how the Nigerian Government failed to Grant her late father an official pardon.
Sharing a post via her Official Facebook page, Noo said her dad was ‘buried in an unmarked grave for almost a decade’ for his peacefully pursue to secure human rights for the Ogoni people and to campaign against oil spills in the oil-rich Niger Delta’.
Noo wrote;
“25 years ago today, my father Ken Saro-Wiwa and his eight colleagues were murdered by Nigeria’s military regime after a sham trial. Their only ‘crime’ was to peacefully pursue human rights for the Ogoni people and to campaign against oil spills in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
“Their bodies were buried in an unmarked grave for almost a decade. When our family finally received my father’s remains we had to reassemble his skeleton with our own hands before giving him a dignified burial.
“To this day the Nigerian government has not granted him an official pardon. It speaks volumes about our so-called democracy. No government can call itself civilised or claim any moral authority while it refuses to exonerate these innocent men. Black lives will matter outside of Africa only when they matter in Africa itself. #pardonkensarowiwa #pardontheogoni9” She wrote.
