Seventeen years after their execution, details have emerged on how former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, now deceased, got members of his defunct Provisional Ruling Council (PRC) to approve the death sentence passed on environmental rights activist and author, Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight others.
Saro-Wiwa and others, who were accused of killing four Ogoni chiefs opposed to the campaign by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), which was headed by the late author, were convicted after a controversial trial that attracted global condemnations.
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