GREED AND BATTLE FOR NIGERIA'S OIL MONEY | THE KEN SARO-WIWA STORY

When crude oil was discovered in commercial quantity in Oloibiri, present-day Bayelsa state in 1956, no one envisaged that it will result in one of the most brutal state-sponsored murders in Nigeria's history, the execution of television producer, playwright and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others by the regime of late military dictator, General Sani Abacha in 1995. But what is the true story behind the assassination of the infamous Ogoni 9 and the never-ending battle for Nigeria's crude oil?
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HOW THE STRUGGLE FOR NIGERIA'S OIL BEGAN
The real struggle for the control of Nigeria's oil resources started when General Chukwuemeka Ojukwu declared the old eastern region as the Republic of Biafra on May 30, 1967, following a chain of events culminating in the anti-Igbo pogroms in northern Nigeria between 1966 to 1967.
Ojukwu and his co-travellers were also motivated by the recent discovery of large quantities of crude oil deposits deep underneath the Biafran soil, and the huge money-making potential the black gold would fetch. But just as the discovery of crude oil in the east fueled the Biafran fight for independence, it also reinforced the Nigerian government's determination to dismantle the Biafran uprising by any means necessary.
All efforts to broker peace between Ojukwu, the new Biafran leader and General Yakubu Gowon, the Nigeria military Head of State failed with the most notable being the meeting in Aburi, Ghana conveyed by Ghanaian leader, Lieutenant-General J.A Ankrah between 4 and 5 January 1967. But the decisions reached during the meeting famously known as the 'Aburi Accord' which among others provided for a confederal system were not implemented and the stage became set for what will ultimately go down as the most violent conflict in West African history. For three gruelling years, the Nigerian and Biafran armies will engage in a raging civil war and a battle for dominance in which an estimated two million civilians will lose their lives in the conflicts.

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We have seen how far the one Nigeria is helping the plateau state people where Yakubu Gowon comes from.
With the massacre & ethnic cleansing ongoing there, I'm glad that Gowon is alive to see the fruit of his one Nigeria.

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Nigeria my country 😢