""If we had a proper system, they would find that there is not so much oil money around anyway," Saro-Wiwa told DW in November 1993. "Oil is causing a lot of devastation, which the country has not paid for and which it will pay for in due course. So people should go and look for other sources of sustenance instead of eyeing oil," he said."
"Nnimmo Bassey, now one of the most prominent environmental activists in the Niger Delta, calls him a "courageous man" and a "visionary." "He was very much ahead of his time," Bassey told DW."
Ken Saro-Wiwa exposed the disastrous effects of oil extraction in the Niger Delta and warned that oil wealth would not bring widespread prosperity. He argued that a proper system would reveal little oil money and that oil was causing devastation that the country had not paid for, urging communities to seek other livelihoods. Military general Sani Abacha seized power days later and two years on Saro-Wiwa and eight activists were executed. Supporters attribute the killings to a corrupt system protecting oil profits. Shell’s 1950s discovery initiated unchecked environmental destruction; MOSOP formed in 1990 to protest pollution and lack of local benefit.
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