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Nigeria: Tinubu Grants Posthumous Pardon to Ken Saro-Wiwa, 8 Others

Nigeria: Tinubu Grants Posthumous Pardon to OgoniKen NineSaro-Wiwa, Activists8 Others

Published JUN 13 2025

Nigeria: Tinubu Grants Posthumous Pardon to Ken Saro-Wiwa, 8 Others

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President Tinubu’s pardon of the Ogoni Nine, largely a symbolic act, stops far short of true justice. It wrongly suggests guilt where there was none. Without full exoneration and a formal repudiation of their sham convictions, the stain of injustice remains. Only a clear acknowledgment of innocence and corporate accountability can begin to heal what history so grievously scarred.

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