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Last Updated: Monday, November 8th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Afenifere lists how to immortalise Saro-Wiwa, eight others By Tunde Abatan, Senior Correspondent, Lagos   Nine years after the execution of the Ogoni Nine -political activists in Ogoni land led by author and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa- the Yoruba socio-political group, the Afenifere has said that the best way to remember the activists was for the federal government to make conscious moves towards addressing the issues for which they were unjustly executed by the late Gen. Sani Abacha’s military junta. In a press statement on Sunday by its publicity secretary, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere expressed surprise that the President Olusegun Obasanjo government could describe the Ogoni 9 as members of a criminal organisation (Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP). While recalling that one of the greatest crimes committed by the Abacha regime was the hanging of Saro-Wiwa and eight others, through a flawed conviction, Afenirere remarked that the activists were executed in their agitation for a fair share of their God given resources. In order to uphold what the activists stood for, the group is of the opinion that for peace to reign in the Niger Delta and in order to appease the souls of the Ogoni 9, the issues raised by the MOSOP about the need for just relations between the Nigerian government and international oil explorers should be addressed. It also expressed surprise that a government which had failed to appreciate what the Ogoni 9 stood and fought for, could dispatch a presidential jet to fetch Asari Dokubo to the Presidential Villa and openly buy arms from him all in a bid to suppress the agitations. Afenifere recounted the prediction of the late Saro-Wiwa that even if the Nigerian state succeeded in killing him, it cannot kill the fire he kindled which has continued to reverberate through out the length and breadth of Niger Delta. It added that the recognition given to Dokubo is a pointer to the relevance of armed struggle agitation for an equitable share of the nation’s resources.   Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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