The persecution of civil rights activists have been the challenge and lot of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. The Ogoni uprising questioning Shell's corporate irresponsibility has led to massive killings and utter neglect. A dirty Shell Petroleum Development Company, Nigeria's subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, has turned the state against the Ogoni people supporting indiscriminate killing of the people.
The prison scars are truly very scary. They live on my
wrists. The psychological torture will live with you for a long time. Sadly,
the pains are inflicted by your own country and in your innocence, you watch a
police officer whose primary responsibility is to protect, turn against you for
no reason outside being vocal in a fight for human rights and survival for the
people.
Ken Saro-Wiwa suffered from these scars and still lived with
them until death. May Ken's struggles for justice for the Ogoni people never
seize until the Ogoni he left behind is happy.
It is unfortunate that the Nigerian Government still fails
to realise how easy it is to bring happiness to Ogoni. Government often think
only of the use of brute force to calm public expression of civil unhappiness.
The situation is worsened when a monster called Shell Petroleum is involved.
But I will help them in this instance. Our first expectation
is the exoneration of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the eight others murdered with him in
1995. This has become a critical component of the Ogoni demands and will
continue to stain our country until the innocence of the Ogoni 9 is
acknowledged and asserted by the government. The government has named a
polytechnic and a major street after Saro-Wiwa, they celebrate him in some ways
but the government simply finds it hard to admit that the Ogoni 9 were murdered
in their innocence and such magnitude of injustice cannot be forgotten in a
hurry. The exoneration of the Ogoni 9 is overdue and should come now.
The persecution of civil rights activists have been the
challenge and lot of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. The
Ogoni uprising questioning Shell's corporate irresponsibility has led to
massive killings and utter neglect. A dirty Shell Petroleum Development
Company, Nigeria's subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, has turned the state
against the Ogoni people supporting indiscriminate killing of the people.
Their wish is to stifle the sacrifices of Ken Saro-Wiwa and
others for a better Ogoni and to possibly harass MOSOP to death. They would
wish to have our dear Ken not remembered for anything.
Imagine a terribly confused KAGOTE contemplating its own
wing of MOSOP. They have found their KAGOTE to be truly a private entity and
think the only way to gain relevance is to find some attachment to MOSOP.
They have found their elitist ideology defeated by the
mass-based philosophy of MOSOP, unable to stand against the tide, their only
relevance is now perceived as achievable with some sort of endorsement by
MOSOP. So, they scramble for the soul of MOSOP at all cost.
Does it make common sense that a supposed KAGOTE president
is inaugurating an executive of MOSOP? Isn't it a shame for those who reason
and act so naively to claim they are Ogoni elites? It's frustratingly
surprising even for the followership of these crop of Ogoni elites to allow
their reasoning to be captured by a zombie mentally that even in their claims
of elitism, a carry-go defeatist syndrome overwhelmingly drowns their courage
and self-esteem. They follow with an enslaved conscience unable to ask simple
questions.
I should wonder why they wouldn't simply admit that the
KAGOTE they do today is fake and they all need to visit their villages to
register with an affiliate of MOSOP, join the queue to learn how we do what we
do.
The scramble for MOSOP has led them into lots of unwholesome
behaviour. But put together, they still cannot cope with the intellectual
struggles of MOSOP. Their only consideration is the deployment of crude means.
Lessons from history of the Ogoni struggle should tell the
new KAGOTE that MOSOP is an idea and indestructible. It cannot be seen, felt
nor can we separate it from the real Ogoni people who desire a better future
for the nationality.
The current approach of the enemies of MOSOP is condemnable
and detested. Unfortunately, even our police department does not care about
basic investigations before they clamp down especially when a lot of water
passes under the bridge.
The police have become very vulnerable to exploitation
especially when a serving senator is desperate to be the next Rivers State
governor in 2023. If being a senator will send innocent Ogonis to unlawful
detention, generate frivolous and spurious allegations to keep the most
outspoken incarcerated, then, what will being an executive governor bring? May
God save us from serving senators.
May God not give us serving senators as governors if all
they can do with their position is promote an epileptic KAGOTE and device
dubious means to kill the innocent, quench critical voices that refuse to be on
their team of sycophants.
May the spirits of our land rise to defend the people
against serving senators who see Fegalo Nsuke's pen and battle of
intellectualism to free the people from a slave culture as threatening their
internal deception and unfair dominance.
And may the souls of all Ogoni martyrs stand against those
whose intentions are to colonise our people internally, taking away their peace
and basic rights and subjecting them to undignified living.
I urge the Ogoni people to sustain our peaceful methods,
rise up and demand respect for their basic rights. Arise and be counted among
those whose efforts will bring the desired peace and justice for the oppressed
people of Ogoni. We cannot afford to fail.
Nsuke is President of the Movement for the Survival of the
Ogoni People
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