MOSOP writes UN, Obama, other World Leaders, Alleges Oppression of Ogonis

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines, Niger Delta, Rivers, State News Sunday, September 2nd, 2012

MOVEMENT for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, says
kinsmen and women of Ken Saro-Wiwa, in the Rivers State axis
of Southern Nigeria, are currently living in great fear and
frustration.

This allegation is contained in a Save Our Souls letter to the
Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, and
other world leaders among them President Barack Obama of the
United States, that was made available to AkanimoReports on
Sunday.

Copies of the MOSOP letter were sent to Nigerian President
Goodluck Jonathan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human
Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, the United Nations People
Organisation, UNPO, Albania Prime Minister, Antigua and
Barbuda Prime Minister, Argentina President, Armenia President,
and Austria Federal Chancellor.

Others include Azerbaijan President, Barbados Prime Minister,
Belgium Prime Minister, Brazil President, Bulgaria President,
Canada Prime Minister, Chad President, Chile President,
Colombia President, Costa Rica President, Croatia President,
Czech Republic, Denmark Prime Minister, Dominica President,
and Prime Minister, Dominican Republic President, Ecuador
President, and Egypt President

The rest are leaders of El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland,
Gabon, Ghana, Georgia, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala,
Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Latvia,
Luxembourg, Maldives, Mauritius, Micronesia, New Zealand,
Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saint
Lucia, Seychelles, Slovenia, South Korea, South Africa, Sri
Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Thailand, Trinidad and
Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, and Zambia.

In the letter, MOSOP alleged that the government of Nigeria and
Rivers State in particular show no pretense in their programme to
dehumanize, deprive and weaken the Ogoni and forcing them to
possible extinction. It is difficult to explain the conditions of social,
political, economic and environmental trauma to which they are
being condemned.

According to them, ”like in the 1990s, state authorities and their
agents still sponsor attacks on local communities as strategy of
intimidating, disorganizing and breaking people’s unity and
resolve.

”In Sogho communities in NyoKhana kingdom of Ogoni, Rivers
State Government has inflicted huge disaster in attempt to force
the people to surrender their farmlands for purported military
camp and banana plantation. The situation is most shocking,
smacking of deliberate cruelty and abuse on the entire people
and history of Ogoni.

”It started in 2011 when armed mobile police men of the Joint
Task Force (JTF) shut and killed two men in open day light at a
town square meeting. The men of the JTF had come to the
village where the people held meetings to discuss the forceful
survey of their farmlands by soldiers of the Nigerian Army. It is
significant that till today nothing has been done concerning
policemen that killed the innocent Sogho natives in cold blood.

”No serious government can turn its back on the kind of situation
in Sogho. We invite people to visit Sogho and see the situation.
We demand that strong judicial investigation be conducted to
ascertain the level of killing and destruction in Sogho and those
responsible”.
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