Centenary Celebration: Ogoni Protests Saro Wiwa’s Exclusion From National Honours List

The Ogoni's People have expressed dissatisfaction with the exclusion of the late environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and other prominent sons of Ogoniland from the honours list of the centenary celebration.

Saro-Wiwa was hanged to death on November 10, 1995, on the orders of the late military dictator, Sani Abacha. 

While the man who ordered his execution will be post-humously honored by the President Goodluck Jonathan Presidency as the nation gets set to celebrate 100 years of nationhood, Ken Saro-Wiwa’s name never made it beyond the oil polluted creeks.