Late Ken Saro wiwa
At last, the Federal Government of Nigeria will begin to purge itself of its iniquities against Ogoniland and its people.
Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Usman has announced, during a visit yesterday to Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, that clean-up of Ogoniland will begin on June 2.
The oil industry has been a key sector of the Nigerian economy for over 50 years. No ethnic group has paid a higher price for it, than the Ogoni people.
Ogoni people and Ogoniland have been environmentally abused by decades of careless oil exploration in the region by multi-national oil companies that have only an eye for the oil but no heart for the people.
It is a painful history of placing money before people by a government that was supposed to cater for the wellbeing of its citizens. This put Ogoni people and power until this day at loggerheads. And they paid the highest price for their struggle with the senseless killing of one of their brightest sons, Ken Saro Wiwa by late military dictator, Sani Abacha.
The proposed start of the cleanup of the contamination inflicted on Ogoni waters and land by mindless capitalism could be an inch forward in an attempt by a country to push away a hefty weight on its conscience.
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