Organisers set up a street podium to celebrate the late activist who was hanged with other Ogoni activists on November 10, 1995 in Port Harcourt.
A large group of youths comprising musical artists, poets and activists trooped to the venue.
The event, expected to last all night, will involve visitation to the Port Harcourt cemetery at midnight.
At the event, Sowore said the late activist introduced him to activism against the activities of multinationals. He revealed that Saro-Wiwa was the first to talk about climate change in addition to campaigning against pollution of the Niger Delta environment.
He also disclosed that Saro-Wiwa was the first to detect alleged mass oil theft by multinational oil corporations allegedly colluding with Nigerian oil officials, particularly Royal Dutch Shell.
Sowore said, “I met Saro-Wiwa when I was 21 years old. He was the one who introduced me to the struggle against multinationals.
“The issue of climate change which is happening now in Egypt, it was Saro-Wiwa that first started talking about it in Africa, and by extension in the world.”
Saro-Wiwa with eight others from Ogoni land protested against the operating practices of the Royal Dutch Shell oil company. However, they were executed by the late General Sani Abacha’s regime on trumped-up charges in 1995.
Sowore said, “Saro-Wiwa never died, but remains with us. You can not kill a man who has not been destined to die.”
