Press Statement from the 1st Ken Saro Wiwa Memorial Seminar Organized in Cape Town by the Ogoni Solidarity Forum (OSF) on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2007 to mark the 12th anniversary of the killing of the Ogoni 9
On the 22nd and 23rd of November 2007, representatives of Social Movements, Community Based Organizations, Faith Based groups, Non Governmental Organizations, Scholars and Academics, Activists and Journalists from different parts of South Africa meet in Community House, Cape Town, to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the killing of Ken Saro Wiwa, who was a well known writer, environmentalist, minority rights crusader and eight other Ogoni activists, namely; Dr. Barinem Kiobel, John Kpuinee, Paul Levura, Daniel Gbokoo, Felix Nuateh, Saturday Doobee, Nordu Eewo and Baribor Beera, were callously killed by the hands of the Nigerian nation state on the 10th of November 1995.
The purpose of the two day meeting was to sensitize the South African public about the plight and struggle of the Niger Delta Communities in general and the Ogoni Ethnic Nationality in particular.
The meeting was attended by a total of 102 delegates including Prof. Dennis Vincent Brutus, ex-Robben Islander, and well known South African poet, Bobby Peek, renowned South African Environmentalist, Dr. Tam-George, Prof. Eugene Cairncross, Prof. Kevin Winter and Dr. Kolade Arogundade who presented different papers based on researches done on oil exploration and exploitation of the Niger Delta peoples and the Ogoni situation.
The two day seminar was motivated by activists from the Ogoni Ethnic Nationality, who came to South Africa since 2003 to solicit for support from their fellow Africans, to expose the cruel hands of imperialism on the African indigenous peoples.
That after the two day meeting, the participants came to the following understanding and resolutions:
That the Ogoni ethnic nationality and other groups of the Niger Delta, were grafted into a Nigerian nation state on account of colonial and imperial business interest. read more
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