Nobel
Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that Nigeria need to seek non
partisan approach towards solving the problem posed by the Boko Haram
sect to the country.
Soyinka said this in Osogbo on Monday at
colloquium organised by the Centre forBlack Culture and International
Understanding entitled “Fundamental Imperatives of Cohabitation Faith
and Secularism.”
Soyinka, who is the Chairman of CBCIU
said that the killings by the sect transcended partisan politics saying
every Nigerian irrespective of religious or political leaning must rise
up against it.
He described the incessant killings by the sect as nothing but a war with the nation.
He said, “What is happening now goes
beyond politics. I think there should be a non partisan approach to it.
Enough atrocities have been committed, programmed structured atrocities
with a goal in view.
“What is happening is not unique to
Nigeria and I think there are histories we can learn from either to
reject solutions there or play varitions on them. but a truthful and
obejctive analysis of them. This is not a partisan situation.
“I said it about four years ago before
David Mark and one governor that this is a war situation. It is internal
war, it cant call called civil war but this nation is at war with
itself. A war situation is a non partisan situation. This is no the
time to start playing politics with what is approaching. It is
happening again in Abuja. We can’t contribute to smear mentholatum over
leprosy. It doesn’t get us anywhere.”
He described the killing of students in
Bunu Yadi in Borno State and the killing of students traveling to write
last Saturday Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination as highly
condemnable.
He said that thinking that what is happening in the North did not concern those down South was erroneous belief because
Soyinka said that the emergence of
religious centers along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway constituted nuisance
to travelers on the ever busy roads while blaming the Christian for
starting it.
He said that the Muslims waited for a
long time before some of them joined saying the road would have been
totally blocked if traditional religions worshipers also had placed
their camps along the highway.
Source: Punch
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