26 years ago, the regime of the late Nigerian dictator General #SaniAbacha, hurriedly tried renowned environment activist and poet, Ken Saro Wiwa, alongside eight of his kinsmen of the #Ogoni nationality, and rushed through their execution by hanging on a charge of premeditated murder.
That singular action triggered diplomatic backlash, with the country treated as a pariah nation by her former economic and political allies…
ARISE Correspondent Ovieteme George put together THIS SPECIAL REPORT underlining the issues at the root of the late Saro-Wiwa’s activism….
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