To Abacha, the obdurate, thick, crabby, crackbrained and maximum leader, the tools of contest was not reason, consensus and compromise but oil, money, position and brute force. The theatre of his catfight with Wiwa was the Niger creeks, a terrain rich in the black gold but blighted by environmental degradation and malnourished in civilizational infrastructure
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It said the plot is being hatched through the sponsorship of local actors to engage in a campaign of calumny against the leadership of MOSOP, cause crises in Ogoni and provide an environment to kill the MOSOP by replicating the Ken Saro-Wiwa treatmen
The lawmakers said it would be inappropriate to grant Saro-Wiwa the honour, arguing that his execution was “duly considered and endorsed by government”.
Justice Lima Abdullahi struck out the application filed by Ken Saro Wiwa Associates in Port Harcourt on Friday
Other renowned things that happen in Nigeria mentioned in the book included the firing of tear gas canisters at protesters; the killing of women; the detention of the journalist of The News magazine; the betrayal of those that should support the same cause; the state of Nigerian roads; trigger happy uniform officers; the care of detainees left to their families and friends while in incarceration; the ransack of people’s private homes; the way in which international organizations get away with environment degradation in Nigeria and not in other countries
“Ken Saro-Wiwa Jnr. was a suave, urbane and humane gentleman who fought injustice and inequity with scholarly augment and logical polemics. He chose the path of debate and jaw-jaw to redress wrongdoings to his people, rather than recourse to violence,” Abubakar said
The filings with the US District Court for the Southern District Court of New York said she planned to begin that action before the end of the year
He said that the delay in the implementation of the report was detrimental to the Ogoni people, as many of them were already suffering from the effects of oil spills on their environment