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| Sobomabo Jackrich. |
The Executive Director of the Network for the Defense of Democracy and Good Governance, Ambassador Sobomabo Jackrich is today, celebrating with all sons and daughters of Ogoni land, 27 years after the death of Ken Saro Wiwa.
Ambassador Sobomabo Jackrich through a statement he made
today, says, “Today is the 27th memorial anniversary of the brutal execution of
Ken Saro Wiwa and 8 others, I stand with the families of Ogoni 9, and the Ogoni
4, ( AKA Ogoni 13 ) together with thousands of other Ogoni martyrs who paid the
Supreme price in the days of the struggle to restore our hope, they paid the
Supreme price for the Social, Economic, and Environmental Emancipation of
Ogoniland, Niger Delta, Nigeria and Africa.
Continuing, Jackrich says, the year 2022 is historic for many
reasons, as the 4th of December shall make it 30 years since the Ogoni people,
under the Leadership of Ken Saro Wiwa, took their destinies into their hands
and courageously crossed the Rivers of Fear and gave QUIT NOTICE to Shell
Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria and Joint Venture Partners.
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| Sobomabo Jackrich with his team. |
They were seeking to actualize the hope of the Ogoni people for
a better life. As our hero, Ken Saro Wiwa said in one of his last interviews,
THE STRUGGLE IS ABOUT HOPE and I quote: ‘
The Struggle itself is about HOPE. If I didn’t think that
there was hope in the future, I would not be fighting. I will not be
encouraging anybody to struggle the way we are doing now’.!
Yes, there must be HOPE! (Ogoni) is a rich land. It is a well
blessed land. If we can get the oppressors out of the way. If we can get those practicing
double standards out of the way. If we can get the pollution to stop. I am sure
that Ogoni will be a happy land.
Ken Saro Wiwa works, hopes and dreams were for our happiness,
as one of our greatest political thinkers and scholar of blessed memory, Prof.
Claude Ake, had this to say of the Ogoni struggle.
Ogoni is the Conscience of this country, they have risen
above our slave culture of silence. They have found the courage to be free and
they have evolved a political consciousness which denies power to rogues, bullies,
fools and hypocrites. For better or for worse, OGONILAND HOLDS OUR HOPE.
Battered and bleeding, they struggle on to realize our HOPES and to restore our
dignity. If they falter we die.
And I have come today with the same message of HOPE, building
upon the foundation of our thers and
heroes. And Yes, there must be hope.
As we reflect upon the great life and legacy of this GREAT MESSENGER
OF HOPE! We must always remember his words, that " You can Kill the
Messenger, but you cannot Kill the
message. The Message of HOPE is still alive today.
Let's keep HOPE alive! For i see RIVERS OF HOPE
flowing from Bane in Ogoniland through all parts of Rivers State, Niger Delta, Nigeria
and Africa.
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