Daily Trust
5 October 2011
Yenagoa — Late Ken Saro-wiwa was hanged because he had concluded plans to cede the Niger Delta region from the rest of the federation and to create a separate country of his own, Bayelsa State Director of State Security Service, Andrew Iyaji, has said.
The SSS director made the revelation yesterday while delivering a lecture at this year' s Bayelsa State Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)' s press week held at the council hall in Yenagoa.
Iyaji disclosed that the late Saro-Wiwa and eight others had acquired a standing army, designed a national flag, a national anthem and other security items that were to be handed over to the United Kingdom
He said it was popularly believed that the man was executed following his struggle to emancipate the Ogoni people of his native Rivers State
Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists were hanged during the Abacha regime after a tribunal found them guilty of the murder of four prominent Ogoni leaders who were accused of betraying the cause of their people.
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