Thursday, November 19, marks the twenty-eight anniversary of the execution of the president of the movement for the survival of ogoni people, Ken Saro Wiwa.
Writers, authors and Poets gathered in Abuja on Wednesday to remember one of their own.
Ken Saro-Wiwa was the head of the movement for the rights of Ogoni people and a central figure in the struggle to combat environment devastation of the Niger Delta.
These writers , authors and poets say 28 years after he was executed during the military government, the people of Ogoni land are yet to get justice.
They want the federal government to review the judgement by the military tribunal that sentenced Saro Wiwa with other activists to death.
They insist that unless the environment challenges which Saro Wiwa lived and died fighting against are addressed, his death and that of other activists would have been in vain.
Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other activists were executed on November nine, nineteen ninety-five, after being found guilty of murder of a pro-government traditional chief in Ogoniland.
(Editor : Ena Agbanoma)
