How could we have missed a report so significant? The report implies plainly that the executed Ogoniland activists, specifically Ken Saro Wiwa, were justified in engaging in whatever means to condemn the environmental havoc inflicted on Ogoniland by the oil companies, specifically Shell – yes the Shell.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) recently published its Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland, and left much of the conscientious world agape over the fact that Nigeria “Paid a high price” for the “development” that oil brought to the country. The report commissioned by the Federal Government revealed that “oil contamination in Ogoniland is widespread and severely impacting many components of the environment. Even though the oil industry is no longer active in Ogoniland, oil spills continue to occur with alarming regularity. The Ogoni people live with this pollution every day.