How Nigeria killed Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995
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Күн бұрынKenule Beeson ''Ken'' Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.
Initially as spokesperson, and then as president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company.
He was also an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government, which he viewed as reluctant to enforce environmental regulations on the foreign petroleum companies operating in the area.
However, on November 10, 1995, Saro-Wiwa was killed by hanging by the Nigerian federal military government under the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. #HistoryVille #KenSaroWiwa
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:15 Early Life and Education
02:36 Career and Civil War
03:58 Personal Life and Family
04:30 Activism
05:35 Trial and Execution
07:40 Next Video
@Kasikhia24 2 жыл бұрын
I expected this video for long. Thank God it came. God bless Historyville
@HistoryVille 2 жыл бұрын
🙏🙏🙏
@jiksawo08 2 жыл бұрын
Saro Wiwa and Isaac Boro were both educated in Igbo land but were used against Ndi Igbo during the war
@intsikayethu495 2 жыл бұрын
So much rich history about Africa that is often ignored. Thank you for sharing this. We started a new channel to also spread the awareness of African culture and heritage
@papingodee7523 2 жыл бұрын
Late Ken Saro Wiwa came from an Ogoni village called "Bane", not from Bori. Bori is the capital of Ogoni. His father was the first educated person in Bane village and I used to be Ken's father's friend for many years. The father told me a lot about Ken, Ken's trial, late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Ken's mother (who was blind then for her excessive cries over the death of her son), about Bane village and culture.
@phantom2k10 2 жыл бұрын
i hope Abacha isn't resting on the otherside and all the pain,suffering,bloodshed and misery he brought upon the people of this country is delivered back to him 100 fold.Rest in power to Mr Ken Saro-Wiwa and thankyou for sharing this
@saniisa518 2 жыл бұрын
Its ur parents that are not resting on the other side
@SmartKelz 2 жыл бұрын
@@saniisa518 😃 😃 funny but crazy
@ebenezerkittoe9115 Жыл бұрын
@@saniisa518Abacha was pure evil. How can you defend him if u aren’t Urself?
@ejioguozioma7735 2 жыл бұрын
I heard Saro wiwa kept inquiring from the soldiers sent to take him to the hangman if his “ friend “ Abacha is aware of his fate?
@moboladedada315 Жыл бұрын
Thank you sir.
@raycorey 2 жыл бұрын
I remember this.
@GenevaHotel-ie6sz 10 ай бұрын
Saro wiwa good morning You fought igbos with Nigeria and the same Nigeria killed you Common sense This one sweet me
@dadajulius6489 10 ай бұрын
The heading of this video is not correct. It was the Late General Danni Abacha that killed Ken Saro Wiwa and not Nigeria. Majority of the masses disliked the Military rule of Abacha.
@9jalyricstube.143 2 жыл бұрын
Rest on My Hero
@jeffreychukwufumnanya3097 2 жыл бұрын
This country has sinned. May God forgive us.
@legalizepidgin8230 2 жыл бұрын
Which country hasn't. USA has done worst
@125israel 2 жыл бұрын
@@legalizepidgin8230 focus on the topic sir...
@user-wd3id1gl9g 3 ай бұрын
Dem kee Saro Wiwa , say No Oppression n injustice 😢
@paulfanta510 2 жыл бұрын
Ooh Nigeria.. Hmmm
@Lukas-kz4xm 2 жыл бұрын
Please correct me if I'm wrong but after the hanging wasn't his body and others hanged dissolved in acid?
@nnfefe9451 2 жыл бұрын
He went to Government School Umuahia, spoke fluent Igbo, joined the Federal government against the Igbos, headed in the selling the abandoned Igbo properties in PH, thinking that their possession would be handed over to his people on the platter of gold. Ogoni now is a cesspool of devastation, attaching importance to the fact that their oil possession shall never be in their possession.
@emmagreen2459 2 жыл бұрын
The last time I visited Ogoni, I was at Ogoni palace hotel. And that place still in major ruins 😭😭
@landamalome2077 2 жыл бұрын
Why should an ogoni man fight for biafra? 🤔
@nnfefe9451 2 жыл бұрын
@@landamalome2077 Fight for yourself as Saro Wiwa did!
@landamalome2077 2 жыл бұрын
@@nnfefe9451 and the igbos should fight for themselves and leave other ethnic groups from their "struggle"
@nnfefe9451 2 жыл бұрын
@@landamalome2077 Truly it was a mistake for Igbos to drag saboteurs like your type into our affairs. We stand back and see how devastated your area is let alone that abject poverty you seem to embrace. We pontificate that the full possession of your possession shall never be in your possession. Now it is 3%. There is more of where less than 3% is coming from.
@Rhire94 2 жыл бұрын
This is a half truth, there was so much more to this stories
@petestreet100 2 жыл бұрын
I heard he was offered back handers, which he accepted and was what lead to his fate.
@apexmobilito6205 2 жыл бұрын
I heard his corpse was doused in acid to make him unrecognisable. I was 8 years old when he was executed but I heard about him from my uncles who were journalists at the time.
@legbarajoshua7964 2 жыл бұрын
What has been done to Nnamdi Kalu
@folakemitope-anjorin465 Жыл бұрын
Hmmmmmmnnnn
@Visiondrama 2 жыл бұрын
Saro wiwa is a betrayal. He deserved what he get.
@SmartKelz 2 жыл бұрын
Lol,,,, eating with a very long spoon when eating with the devil is a proverb for the wise!
@chinedumnnamdi3275 2 жыл бұрын
The northern and fulani jihadist as well as northern barbaric military that has continued to hold the rest of Nigeria hostage via violence and at gunpoint, killed Sarowiwa as well as Abiola, Aguiyi Ironsi and many others...The sad part is that they do it in the name of Nigeria....The last time I checked, most parts of Nigeria, except the north as well as most non-northern Nigerians had nothing against Sarowiwa
@ganyniyifaleke891 2 жыл бұрын
How Abacha killed him rather. What a waste!
@thugline4real 2 жыл бұрын
He fought against Biafria thinking Nigeria will receive him with open arms
@SmartKelz 2 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha,,don't mind the idiot, he even rebel his own kinsman
@swanky_naija1012 2 жыл бұрын
Really?
@landamalome2077 2 жыл бұрын
What makes you think biafra would have been better. Same corrupt people. Smh
@thugline4real 2 жыл бұрын
@@landamalome2077 Biafria resources wouldn't be managed by a secondary school leaver
@landamalome2077 2 жыл бұрын
@@thugline4real Buhari is a fool. No arguments. But have you seen the state of the south east? Absolutely abysmal. What are your governors doing? Learn to take responsibilities
@josephwilliamclough1705 Ай бұрын
&8@TIME:5:06.PM.EDT.
@jackyx2293 Жыл бұрын
To me, he was murdered.
@godisgreat8316 2 жыл бұрын
Nigeria didn't killed Ken Sarowiwa, his greediness killed him
@indsmind7475 Жыл бұрын
That's a stupid take Abacha killed him
@digitalwealthplus7532 2 жыл бұрын
He was killed by Fulani
@IshaqIbrahim3 2 жыл бұрын
Abacha is not Fulani. Note Northern people fight each other don't be fooled with the looks. lol!
@amapoppinn1244 2 жыл бұрын
He rode the back of the tiger and it finally ate them. Abacha was a different person from IBB, IBB cuddled him and Abacha didn’t have the patience. SaroWiwa instigated his supporters telling them that the village chiefs were enjoying was belonged to the Ogoni people, the village chiefs asked for FG’s intervention and before help arrived the supporters killed four chiefs and some escaped, that’s why his former employers ie the FG arrested him. The panelists that tried SaroWiwa includes the current CG of customs who impounded a bus brought into the country to celebrate his death anniversary, the bus is still in Grimaldi shipping terminal. Abacha seized the opportunity he got to end the ND problem as SW was trying to make himself the leader of the ND and making the chiefs the people’s enemy. He was a bold man that miscalculated.
@pman4411 2 жыл бұрын
Miscalculated?? That's what u have to say to an innocent man murdered for fighting for his right? I don't think there's any miscalculation on his side.. What I think is that his killer's was looking for all opportunity to kill him whether he did right or wrong
@amapoppinn1244 2 жыл бұрын
@@pman4411 facts are facts. There is no saint in our history, when you have a following you’re responsible for their actions, true he was targeted but that doesn’t take away from his own role.
@ijeoma405 2 жыл бұрын
Remember, the wicked must perish in a disgraceful manner...He took the house of an Igbo business man after the war...karma is a bitch..
@ikechukwucheckurmail1550 2 жыл бұрын
That suit him right- he was the one that said they are not igbo- I can't wait for us to leave Nigeria so that we can watch them cry from afar
@elijahgboro2551 2 жыл бұрын
You are a mumu man
@SmartKelz 2 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha he changed his name to sarowiwa after the civil war...mumu man
@landamalome2077 2 жыл бұрын
Please when are you guys leaving?
@orondahwali5852 2 жыл бұрын
Make una do comot.
@drinkskhalifa7153 2 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for the landlocked called igbo land to leave Nigeria, that time Nigerians will enjoy leaving disaster behind
@Grizzlyx9 2 жыл бұрын
he was a mumu boy
@GunshipGlare_1 2 жыл бұрын
Ur mother is a Mumu woman
@izunnaoffor3016 2 жыл бұрын
Nigeria will never know peace
@rukayatdisu8922 2 жыл бұрын
And u are living inside a country that will have jo peace. Continue swearing on yourself.
@izunnaoffor3016 2 жыл бұрын
@@rukayatdisu8922 for you information . Am not in Nigeria ok
@izunnaoffor3016 2 жыл бұрын
@@rukayatdisu8922 so keep quiet if you don't what to say
@rukayatdisu8922 2 жыл бұрын
Where are u. So cos u live only God knows where , u shd open ur mouth and swear for ur fathers land. I live in the UK and I will never for once say or wish my fathers land evil. Check urself . If u are successful where u are , u shd be proud of Nigeria. Nigeria surely will become great one day.
@izunnaoffor3016 2 жыл бұрын
@@rukayatdisu8922 your are a fool
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