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BBC / CNN May 6, 2014
Video:(1) BBC: The Nigerian government has come under a great deal of criticism over its handling of the Boko Haram threat. Nobel Prize winner Professor Wole Soyinka is the country's foremost writer and social commentator.
Peter Okwoche asked him why the government seems so helpless.
: The search for more than 200 girls in Nigeria is now “beyond the capacity” of the government and needs international support, Nigerian author Wole Soyinka told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“This is a government which is not only in denial mentally, but in denial about certain obvious steps to take,” Soyinka, a Nobel laureate who is often referred to as the conscience of his nation, told Amanpour.
“It’s one of those rather child-like situations that if you shut your eyes, if you don’t exhibit the tactile evidence of the missing humanity here, that somehow the problem will go away.”
It is not just “a Nigerian problem,” he said. “I’m calling for the international community, the United Nations – this is a problem. This is a global problem. And a foothold is being very deeply entrenched in West Africa.”
The search for the girls, who were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group on April 14, has seen little progress. The issue, Soyinka said, has been addressed “very late and very cursorily.” Amanpour had scheduled a live interview with Nigerian Information Minister Labaran Maku on Tuesday; Maku failed to show up in time for the interview. He later spoke with CNN’s Isha Sesay.
Soyinka referred to Shekau’s video as a “charade” and “gleeful obscenity.”
Video: (3) CNN Part (2) Nigerian President 'Cannot Sleep Easy':
The U.S. said on Tuesday that it had offered, and President Goodluck Jonathan had accepted, an offer to discuss American aid in finding the girls.
“President Jonathan should have asked for it from the very beginning,” Soyinka said. “I don’t believe in false pride.”
Why, Amanpour asked, does Soyinka believe Jonathan is in denial?
“It’s not only he. It’s the advisers around him. It’s a certain section of the nation, some of whom enjoy for various reasons a nation in a state of chaos. They profit by it, and in fact some of the, are guilty of provoking the situation.”
“The person who has no excuse is the president of the nation.” The problem, he said, has been festering for years.
“There have been numerous incidents like this,” he told Amanpour; the 2011 Boko Haram bombing of a United Nations compound in Abuja and extremist unrest over a 2002 beauty pageant being just two examples.
“The pinpricks you’ve seen all over the world are consolidating into a situation of internal war – insurrection by this group.”
One need only look at the history of Algeria or the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan to understand what is happening, he said.
“Let’s not beat around the bush. We’re dealing with a monstrosity. We’re dealing with an affliction the likes of which the nation has never encountered.”
The response must be rapid, he said. “Abduction, terrorism, suicide bombing – these are very difficult situations to deal with. But they are not unique.”
“Where it will end, I do not know. But one thing is certain: The president and his government cannot sleep easy after what has happened to Nigeria.”
I thot videoing is part of western education cus a stack illitrate can't operate a video. So who is decieving who now. Dis boko pple are all educated. Why are d leaders not carrying out d suicide bombing but brainwashing d foolish illiterate ones to go and kill themselves.
Posted: at 7-05-2014 06:52 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
“President Jonathan should have asked for it from the very beginning,” Soyinka said. “I don’t believe in false pride.” When I made a comment earlier about this same statement dat GEJ shuld ve soughted OBAMA's help earlier dan now one foolish bitch on this forum was telling me my papa no go school. Who is more foolish now bitch. I will still say it if does dat re surrounding GEJ's cabinet re only dia to manipulate his taughts den what's the use of dem all.? Seriously this guys re drawing dis nation backward.
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Posted: at 7-05-2014 10:07 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
HAUSA HARAM,THIS IS JUST HAUSA HARAM,,,,,THE WORLD SHOULD SAY NO TO ISLAM AND BAN ISLAM IN EVERY COUNTRY,WE NIGERIANS KNOWS WHAT HAUSA'S ARE DOING WITH THE HAUSA HARAM,BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IN POWER,FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS THAT ABOKI IS IN POWER,THEY NEVER COME OPENLY LIKE WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW....WE NEED USA TO DIVIDE THE COUNTRY,...
Posted: at 7-05-2014 10:32 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
gej is just too slow in action...soyinka was right when he said he should have done this long ago
this is why the leadership qualities of GEJ is in the negative numbers. He has surrounded himself with self-serving over-fed fat cats who are perpetually in a slumber mode and so out of touch with reality .
Posted: at 7-05-2014 04:39 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
Those who believed the President would have asked for external help before now are simply ignorant of the modus operandi of the government of Nigeria.
They are indifferent to everything just as they are used to doing with the fight against corruption in the oil industry and the public sector affairs since after independence.
Posted: at 7-05-2014 07:24 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
U r right Jonathan too slow n I think that motherphyuket control by his fat heartless wife...who Eva vote fo dem or support dem will b victim of boko haram in Jesus name
Posted: at 8-05-2014 01:43 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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