Legborsi Saro Pyagbara is executive director of the Indigenous Centre for Energy and Sustainable Development, ICE-SD. He is the former president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, an Ogoni-based nongovernmental, nonpolitical apex organization of the Ogoni ethnic minority people of southeastern Nigeria. MOSOP was founded in 1990 with the mandate to campaign nonviolently to promote democratic awareness; protect the environment of the Ogoni People; seek social, economic and physical development for the region; protect the cultural rights and practices of the Ogoni people; and seek appropriate rights of self-determination for the Ogoni people.
