Ken Saro-wiwa Jr has died after suffering a stroke
The BBC reports that the son of the late environmental
activist, Ken Saro wiwa, died in the UK
His sister Noo Saro-Wiwa while confirming his death to
journalists said Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr passed away after suffering a stroke.
She said “It is with great sadness that we announce that Ken
Saro-Wiwa Jr passed away suddenly.
” His family are devastated and request privacy at this
difficult time.”
”Funeral arrangements are yet to be worked out.”
The 47-year-old journalist was a former aide to Goodluck
Jonathan, he was appointed in 2006 as a special adviser on peace and conflict
resolution by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He later served Mr Obasanjo’s successor, President Umaru
Yar’Adua, as an adviser on international affairs and stayed on under President
Goodluck Jonathan until he lost last year’s election.
His willingness to work with the federal government marked
him out as less militant than his father.
Saro-Wiwa Jr was committed to the cause of the Ogoni people
just like his father.
In 2015 he wrote an opinion piece for the UK’s Guardian
newspaper about the effects of the oil pollution on Ogoniland.
He said if his father were alive he would be dismayed that
Ogoniland still looks like the devastated region that spurred him to action.
“There is little evidence to show that it sits on one of the
world’s richest deposits of oil and gas.”he added
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