Nigeria: Ken-Saro Wiwa “Killer” Judge Becomes Acting Chief Judge · Global Voices
Ndesanjo Macha

Justice Ibrahim Auta, the judge who was handpicked by the Abacha regime to head the kangaroo tribunal that sentenced renowned environmentalists and minority rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa to death by hanging, today [March 16, 2001) became the Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.