ONAHDOR INTERNATIONAL

OGONI HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION FOR PEOPLES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS

The purpose of the Ogoni Human Development Organization for peoples and Environmental Rights (ONAHDOR) as an organization is to re-organize the Ogoni people and other person(s), organize the Niger-Delta States Alliance, who may join this organization now or in the future for the struggle for human development, justice, truth and peace for the oppressed people of Nigeria, Africa,  and in the entire world as a family.

ONAHDOR was founded to serve as an apparatus and vehicle to give back power to the marginalized Niger-Delta States through human development and capacity building. Hence, ONAHDOR is democratically non-political, non-religious, non-cultic, and non-governmental in Nigeria and in any existing government of the world.

The inspiration of ONAHDOR is drawn from the Ogoni Nine (9) who were a group of nine activists from the Ogoni region of Nigeria who opposed the operating practices of the Royal Dutch Shell oil corporation.

Their members included outspoken author and playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine, who were executed by hanging on the 10th of November 1995 by the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha and buried in Port Harcourt Cemetery.

The executions provoked international condemnation and led to the increasing treatment of Nigeria as a pariah state until General Abacha's mysterious death in 1998. Ken Saro-Wiwa had previously been a critic of the Royal Dutch Shell oil corporation, and had been imprisoned for a year prior to the executions in November 1995.

At least two witnesses who testified that Ken Saro-Wiwa was involved in the murders of the Ogoni elders later recanted, stating that they had been bribed with money and offers of jobs with Shell to give false testimony – in the presence of Shell's lawyer.

ONAHDOR as an organization, ideologically stands to fight for the people’s rights in support with the ideas of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and a whole or part of Niger Delta sister states in Nigeria (South) and to any extended, existing oppressed Nigeria as group, or groups, family, or families, tribes, who have strongly accepted to join this organization or the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) as Alliance to support the fight for justice now and in the future, as set above.