The  Campaign for Democracy (CD) has expressed displeasure that 15 years after Ken Saro Wiwa and eight others were executed by General Sanni Abacha, their agitations were yet to be addressed.

The CD, in a release signed by its president, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin,  challenged the Federal Government to use   the occasion of the anniversary of Ken Saro Wiwa and Ogoni Eight   to address the issues that led to the murder of Ken Saro Wiwa and that could only be done by doing justice to the demands of the Niger Delta people for a new deal.

Paying glowing tributes to the memories of Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight, the CD said he led the Ogoni people in a peaceful struggle to demand justice and equity on the  exploitation and environmental degradation in the oil community.

It noted that his intellectual militancy put the Ogoni cause on global focus and exposed the criminal activities of the Federal Government and oil companies against the people of the region.

The organisation recalled that rather than addressing the issues that Ken Saro Wiwa-led MOSOP put on the front burner, the Federal Government chose to hang the messenger, thinking that it would hang the message by doing so.