Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
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The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), is a social movement organization representing the indigenous Ogoni people[1][2] of Rivers State, Nigeria. The Ogoni contend that Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), along with other petroleum multinationals and the Nigerian government, have destroyed their environment, polluted their rivers, and provided no benefits in return for enormous oil revenues extracted from their lands.[3][4][5]
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Abbreviation | MOSOP |
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Formation | 1990 |
Founders | Ken Saro-Wiwa |
Type | Social Movement Organization |
Purpose | Indigenous rights of the Ogoni people |
Headquarters | Bori, Ogoni, Rivers State, Nigeria |
Region | Ogoniland |
Membership |
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President | Legborsi Saro Pyagbara |
Affiliations | |
Award(s) | Right Livelihood Award |
Website | mosop |
MOSOP is an umbrella organization representing about 700,000 Ogoni in a non-violent campaign for environmental justice in the Niger Delta.[6][7] Peaceful demonstrations led by MOSOP and other indigenous groups in the region have been brutally suppressed by the Nigerian Mobile Police.[8][9] Thousands of Ogoni were killed, raped, beaten, detained, or exiled.[10] The Ogoni's challenge to state power was finally put down through the judicial murder of Ogoni leaders, including spokesman and founder Ken Saro-Wiwa, in November 1995.[5]
Oil was discovered in the Niger delta in 1957. MOSOP was founded in 1990 by Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni chiefs when they presented the Ogoni Bill of Rights to the Federal government of Nigeria and to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.[4][11][12]
The Ogoni uprising under the leadership of MOSOP was an early and non-violent phase of the conflict in the Niger Delta.
In 1994, MOSOP, along with founder Ken Saro-Wiwa, received the Right Livelihood Award for their exemplary courage in striving non-violently for the civil, economic and environmental rights of their people.[13]