Renowned playwright, Prof. Wole
Soyinka has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make killer herdsmen pay
for their crimes.
He said this would send a strong
warning that the Buhari administration would not tolerate forceful land seizure
anywhere in Nigeria.
Soyinka stated this in a
statement on Wednesday, titled “On demand: A language of non-capitulation,
non-appeasement.”
The Nobel laureate said that
Buhari’s recent claim that it was unjust for the public to accuse him of being
silent on the killer herdsmen’s activities was based on Nigerians’ observation
of his “erstwhile language of complacency and accommodativeness in the face of
unmerited brutalisation.’’
He added that Buhari had yet to
speak in the language that the “murdering herdsmen” understand by exhibiting
that forceful seizure of land would not be tolerated in any part of a
federation under his governance.
Soyinka said, “That the temporary
acquisition of weapons of mass elimination by any bunch of psychopaths and
anachronistic feudal mentality will not translate into subjugation of a people
and a savaging of their communities.’’
He noted that certain
unconscionable events had taken place in the country, which cannot be ignored,
adding that entire communities had been “erased from the national landscape,”
thousands of family units in mourning and “survivors scarred and traumatised
beyond measure.”
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