Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday said the government of President Goodluck Jonathan was not capable of countering the menace of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
Speaking on Amanpour on CNN, Punch reports Soyinka submitted that the international community must intervene in what he called the bestiality of the insurgents when responding the question of the host, Christine Amanpour on how the insurgency in the country could be tackled. “This menace has to be internationalised; every country has to be involved in finding solutions to the problem. It is not a Nigerian problem but the problem of the whole world. From the activities of the group and the response of the government since this madness started, it is clear that this government cannot handle this problem alone.
Soyinka accused both the past and the present governments in the country of living in self denial, by believing that they could negotiate or “appeal” to “murderers and killers” to stop their activities. He said: “It is not just the President that has been living in self denial but some of those he has surrounded himself with. I cannot understand why it is difficult to ask for international help when you are confronted with a problem of this nature. The problem would not have reached this monstrous level if the President has not been living in self denial. So, accepting the help of the United States in this matter is long overdue.”
Soyinka faulted the visit of the former Nigerian President, the late Umaru Yar’Adua, to the family and loyalists of the founder of Boko Haram, Yusuf Mohammed, after he was killed in police detention in 2009. The Nobel Laureate said: I don’t support extrajudicial killing; it is condemnable, it is absurd. But you need to understand this better that these people that were said to have been killed by the security agents were equally killers and murderers. Yusuf, the leader of the sect, was killing people and forcing people to convert to Islam or be killed. Now, I’m surprised that some people have painted Yusuf as a saint. The former President went to the family and people of Yusuf after he was killed (in 2009) to plead with them to be calm; appealing to killers and murderers to be calm?”
Soyinka noted that the abducted schoolgirls in Chibok might live with the trauma of their kidnapping for the rest of their lives, recommending that the authorities should get psychologists, who would be able to help them after they might have been freed.
He explained that the politicians had laid the foundation for the army of idle militants in the North, which became the bedrock of the lingering insurgency. The politicians helped to entrench this problem in the first place. The large army of Almajiri metamorphosed into the raw materials that these terrorists recruited and the politicians also used them for their own selfish interest. Now, they can no longer handle the problem.
When Amanpour asked Soyinka for his reaction to the pronouncements and actions of the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Monday, the Nobel Laureate said, “That one that calls herself the First Lady of Nigeria? I don’t want to talk about her.”
It is beyond him. He needs help jt like any other country dat neef help. Some northern vagabonds have said Jonathan will not enjoy his tenure so they are bent on killing innocent poor helpless pple. Nigeria need help pls.
Posted: at 7-05-2014 12:16 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Fantastic11 at 7-05-2014 03:03 AM (9 years ago) (m)
Let's not talk abt her pls.b4 she 4get 2 add salt 2 d banga soup she is preparing 4 uncle jona.bokos av met their end!b virgin blood of these chibok girls has risen against them.they spent money recruitingg frm chad n cameroon.if their sponsores r blocked then they will stop .
Posted: at 7-05-2014 03:03 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie
kingcalors at 7-05-2014 04:25 AM (9 years ago) (m)
First Lady, Leader of market women, Our English mistress, Our town crier. Second in commend of the federal republic of Nigeria... please allow GEJ to rule ooo! We personally voted him to rule us and not for him to be ruled by someone.
Posted: at 7-05-2014 04:25 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
The ordained Islamic scholar quoted a verse in the quaran that allowed abduction ,sex slavery,rape and child trafficking.Shekau said it was mohafaggot that instructed and sanctioned such barbaric mass abduction of innocent teenage girls,and therefore mohafagot doctrinate sex slavery in the abomination evil book called quaran piss of shit hole.Shekau pronounced loudly the legacy of Mohammed that the general Muslim have created Islamic market for sex trafficking.Allah commanded him to sell woman,that's truly the Islamic values.
Spare me
Posted: at 7-05-2014 05:20 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
WOLE SOYINKA ALSO KNOWS THAT NORTHERN POLITICIANS ARE THE ONES WHO BRING BOKO HARAM TO MAKE THE COUNTRY UNGOVERNABLE FOR THE PRESIDENT,EVERYONE IN NIGERIA WHO DOESN'T KNOW THOSE WHO BRING BOKO HARAM,IS A FOOL....BUHARI SAID THAT THERE WILL NOT BE PEACE IN NIGERIA,AND TODAY WHAT HAPPEN???WHEN THE TORTOISE SAID THAT IF WAR COME,HE WILL KILL A PREGNANT WOMAN,,,,WHEN WAR STARTED AND PREGNANT WOMAN WAS KILLED,WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING????NIGERIANS SHOULD ANSWER ME...
Posted: at 7-05-2014 06:34 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
WHEN THE TORTOISE SAID THAT IF WAR COME,HE WILL KILL A PREGNANT WOMAN,,,,WHEN WAR STARTED AND PREGNANT WOMAN WAS KILLED,WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING????NIGERIANS SHOULD ANSWER ME..
BUHARI AND HIS COHORTS SAID THAT THEY WILL MAKE THE COUNTRY UNGOVERNABLE FOR THE PRESIDENT AND TODAY WHAT DID WE GET??HIS WORDS ARE IN ACTION.SO THE COUNTRY SHOULD FIRST BEGIN ARREST OF THOSE NORTHERN POLITICIANS,THEY HAND IS IN IT.THE SECURITY MEN THAT MOVES AROUND WITH THEM ARE BOKO HARAM MEMBERS..
Posted: at 7-05-2014 06:37 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
make America come divide naija..make all man go their way..me don tire for all this noise..make abokis and the islam and the yoruba go their way ..make we delta and the igbos go our way ,,but not brafia oooh..my hand no dey that brafia of a thing ..brafia is dead..but naija need to divide...
Posted: at 7-05-2014 07:34 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
America please and divide Nigeria..let islam go their way..WE DONT NEED THEM AROUND US,,ISLAM IS A CANCER TO THE WORLD...PLEASE COME ..MY OIL IS GOING DOWN..BEFORE THE OIL FINISH...MAKE UNA COME OOOOOOH..
Posted: at 7-05-2014 07:38 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
It is beyond him. He needs help jt like any other country dat neef help. Some northern vagabonds have said Jonathan will not enjoy his tenure so they are bent on killing innocent poor helpless pple. Nigeria need help pls.
Posted: at 7-05-2014 08:28 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
richcash61 at 7-05-2014 10:38 AM (9 years ago) (m)
@dickman2..you no they make any sense at all..all you own talk na rubbish you batter go die somewhere. i'm sure them still they give you food money for house..small boy
Posted: at 7-05-2014 10:38 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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