Ken Saro-Wiwa – Already 20 Years?

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• Osei Kodjo 8 years ago

  Ken Saro-Wiwa was a good writer and his literally exploits will live well after him but he probably overplayed his human rights activities.He resorted to militancy to achieve his objectives and in so doing caused the death of ...
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  Ken Saro-Wiwa was a good writer and his literally exploits will live well after him but he probably overplayed his human rights activities.He resorted to militancy to achieve his objectives and in so doing caused the death of prominent chiefs of the area who opposed his militancy.
  
  The law is no respecter of titles or achievements so it caught up with him.No excuse is enough to incite your people to commit crimes,if you do so the law will set to discipline you and that is what happened in the Ken Wiwa case.
  
  Abatca as dictatorial as he was was firm and refused to be influenced by the western press and African journalist like Cameron Duodu who were using the human right argument as the basis of his defense.As for Mandela,he became a stooge of the west and had to tow their line for what ever reasons best known to himself.

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• Kenilu 8 years ago

  Osei,
  You're proving the truth in the proverb which says, "When it affects some other fellow, then you consider it as affecting a mere tree (not a human being like yourself)".
  
  
  If you had eve seen people dying of throar ...
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  Osei,
  You're proving the truth in the proverb which says, "When it affects some other fellow, then you consider it as affecting a mere tree (not a human being like yourself)".
  
  
  If you had eve seen people dying of throar cancer because of the ash from gas flares; if you had seen fish dying from rivers ad lagoons because petroleum had been spilled into the water; if you had seen land that is so burnt that no bananas could grow on it, as we have in Ogoniland and elsewhere in the Rivers State, you would not be surprised that Ken Saro-Wiwa adopted militant tactics to save his people.
  
  Who are you to judge him? Whar right did Abacha, a coup-maker who committed the illegal act of treason, to take the law into his own hands and murder nine people for protesting?
  
  Osei, you are an disgrace. And I make no bones about that.

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• Hazor 8 years ago

  Please stop your cowardice and be brave.Why are you interested in other country affairs while your own country experience the worse form of brutality and massacre of innocent soul by our own Jerry John Rawlings.Mr author you ...
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  Please stop your cowardice and be brave.Why are you interested in other country affairs while your own country experience the worse form of brutality and massacre of innocent soul by our own Jerry John Rawlings.Mr author you need to remove the speck from your eyes before removing others.If you would have include Rawlings dictatorship and brutality and massacres of innocent Ghanaians I have no problem with that but to denial those murdered in cold blood justice is unjustified.

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• Oprah 8 years ago

  Why on earth do people comment on articles they have not bothered to read?
  The writer lays out in candid detail how he got immersed in the Ogoni story. Where does Rawlings feature in it? Are you so dumb Mr Hazor as to imagi ...
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  Why on earth do people comment on articles they have not bothered to read?
  The writer lays out in candid detail how he got immersed in the Ogoni story. Where does Rawlings feature in it? Are you so dumb Mr Hazor as to imagine that every evil in the world can be covered in one article? What about Khmer Rouge? Me gusty? Spinola?
  
  Illiterates who gain access to computers think they can waste people'time for nothing!

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