Nigeria, June 30 -- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in commemoration of Democracy Day 2025, conferred posthumous national honours on famous writer and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogonis hanged in 1995.

I attended part of their trial in Port Harcourt and had no doubt that the Tribunal was working towards a pre-conceived conclusion.

Doubtlessly, by this conferment, the Tinubu administration was trying to bring to a closure a case that bitterly divided the Ogoni people and brought our country to international ridicule and condemnation.I think the national honours are well-intentioned. However, the government was not well advised on how to heal the Ogoni wounds, so it inadvertently opened older ones.

The Ogonis are a long-s...