Environmental public policy consultant, Dr. John Idamkue, has urged President Bola Tinubu to establish a Ken Saro-Wiwa Mitigation Fund and embark on participatory stakeholders’ engagements among four further huddles that will sustain peace in Ogoniland, ahead of resumption of oil exploration in the area.
Idamkue, close aide to Ken Saro Wiwa through his trial and vexed execution of the Ogoni 9, told journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, that he was breaking his silence on the Ogoni struggle since the event of November 10, 1995, reawaken by two recent policy actions of the President Tinubu on Ogoni affairs.
He recalled the President’s June 12, 2025 Democracy Day posthumous national honours conferred on the Ogoni 9 whose deaths he described as “unjust execution that should never have happened”, further giving his word to grant them presidential pardon after holding talks with Ogoni leaders earlier in January.
