Saro Wiva
In the modern era there are very few people left in the world who live there lives to help other people and try to minimize their problems as much as possible. Usually these people succeed if they are dealing with an individual or a small group of people but when it comes to a Governments many social workers and helpers have been assassinated just because they were speaking against the government. When an individual raise voice against any of the strategies of the government , the government instead of solving the problem, tries to stop the voice raising against. Not all the governments are like that but after reading the article about Saro Wiwa I realised that how true it is that people are sacrificing others lives to benefit themselves, rich people having industries and factories do not care about poor people they just snatch their lands and built up their factories on it and if luckily any farm or vegetative piece of land is left , they destroy it by realeasing poisonous gas in air and poisonous waste in rivers used for agricultural purposes. This is a very serious matter but very few people pay attention to it. People who wants to stop this process to destruction are either killed or sent to life sentence. There are millions of examples in the world which tells us how people sacrificed their lives to help their community and Saro Wiwa was one of them he raised voice against the destruction of oil and gas industries in Ogoni and this cost him his life. Government of his time could have helped him with matter because it was a serious matter and it was for the welfare of the people of its country but instead the government accused him of waging ecological war against Ogoni and precipitating the genocide of the Ogoni people. Saro Wiwa got a punishment of doing a good deed of human welfare. People like Saro Wiwa are like gift of God to His people. These word or Ken Saro Wiwa were absolutely right “ I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not...
View Full Essay