Soyinka -Boko Haram Menace Worse Than Biafran War (Video)

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has condemned the Boko Haram sect, describing it as a worse menace than the Biafran war, which led to the death of many Nigerians.

In an interview , Soyinka, who turns 80 in two weeks, said the terrorists are enemies of unity but are not likely to disintegrate the country. Wole said:
There were atrocities which were committed. But you never had such a regular, getting to a near predictable level of carnage. I think this is what is terrifying. There’s no war zone. There’s no battle line. It’s everywhere. Not just in the North East for instance, it’s
here, right here where we are sitting. It’s right down in Lagos, even though it has not manifested itself.”
Soyinka also blamed successive governments for allowing religious fanaticism to undermine Nigeria’s broadly secular constitution, starting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo allowing some states to declare Sharia law in the early 2000s.
“When the spectre of Sharia first came up, for political reasons, this was allowed to hold, instead of the president defending the constitution,” he said.
Soyinka sees both Christianity and Islam as foreign impositions and argued that modern Africa has lost its shape.
We cannot ignore the negative impact which both have had on African society,” he said adding that “they are imperialist forces: intervening, arrogant. Modern Africa has been distorted.”
He added that while the leadership of Boko Haram needed to be “decapitated completely”, little had been done to present an alternative ideological vision to their “deluded” followers, driven largely by economic destitution and despair.

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Posted: at 3-07-2014 11:54 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero

LET THEM STOP REMINDING US ABOUT BIAFRA WAR WHERE OBASANJO, AWOLOWO, GOWON ETC STARVED 3 MILLION BIAFRAN CHILDREN & WOMEN 2 DEATH
THE WRATH OF GOD IS AT WORK NOW
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVE WITH THEM

Posted: at 3-07-2014 12:24 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

ve heard this repeatedly

Posted: at 3-07-2014 12:37 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Soyinka said A million people died during the Biafra war, though mostly through starvation and illness, rather than violence.  Sir i want you to go and do your  research well

Posted: at 3-07-2014 01:05 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac