Years after late Gen. Sani Abacha gruesomely hanged his father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jnr has also gone to be with the Lord.
Aged 48, he gave up the ghost hours ago in a London hospital after a futile battle with stroke.
Alleged to have battled a lung-related medical challenge, he had slipped into a coma and was placed on life support, from which he never recovered.
News of his demise, as would be expected, has thrown Ogoni land, in Rivers State, into serious mourning.
Educated mostly abroad, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jnr worked under three former Nigerian Presidents – Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan a la compensation.
And until his death, he was working for the UK Guardian – online.