{"id":9025,"date":"2018-03-16T23:26:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T05:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9025"},"modified":"2018-03-17T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T18:32:34","slug":"deal-with-bloodthirsty-terrorists-soyinka-bombs-buhari","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/deal-with-bloodthirsty-terrorists-soyinka-bombs-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough of shedding unjust tears, deal with bloodthirsty terrorists &#8211;\u00a0Soyinka bombs Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Soyinka-Buhari.jpg\" width=\"544\" height=\"317\" \/>Renowned playwright and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop shedding unjust tears and deal with bloodthirsty terrorists unleashing mayhem in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also described the proposed death sentence as punishment for hate speech in Nigeria currently being deliberated in the National Assembly as an instrument to silence fierce criticism and opposition in the county.<\/p>\n<p>In his keynote address at the maiden edition of Ripples Nigeria Dialogue, entitled, \u201cRebuilding trust in a divided Nigeria,\u201d yesterday in Lagos, Soyinka said: \u201cI get impatient when I hear things like Buhari has failed to go and sympathise with the people of Benue, with the people of Nasarawa, with the people of Dapchi or wherever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho needs sympathy? Is it sympathy that will reorder their broken lives? Is sympathy the issue? We are speaking here of one commodity that is fundamentally human deserving\u2014justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should an internal measure to avoid a repeat. We are speaking here of a President that will respond with massive action and not showing up at the arena of human desecration to shed any unjust tears, but give orders that the bloodthirsty terrorists are brought to book.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Hate Speech Bill <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Soyinka also described move by the Senate to pass Hate Speech Bill with a proposed death sentence as punishment merely to silence criticism from opposition in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe bill is to silence criticism and buy immunity so that their acts will not be exposed. This is coming at a time the world is trying to end capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe treatment of Nigerians by the military led me to relocate to a saner clime. I remember invading Obasanjo\u2019s residence in Lagos and challenging him concerning the way Nigerians were being treated. It is a disgrace to us, as a nation. We have been left behind in nearly every field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are lessons to be learned from the diaspora. We need to peep across the Atlantic to see how other countries have been faring.\u201d Drawing illustrations from his paper, entitled, \u201cFrom Miyetti to Haiti: Notes from a solidarity visit,\u201d Soyinka stressed the need to end slavery in the society.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On comments by Defence Minister <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He condemned what he described as the \u201cpoor and insensitive\u201d language and commentary of Minister of Defence, Mansur Ali, on the killings of harmless villagers by marauding herdsmen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you expect them to do after their grazing routes had been blocked?\u201d he quoted the minister as saying at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka stated: \u201cThis is addressing people whose livelihoods and lives have been taken by the herdsmen. Of massacre and of those whose farmlands and property have been destroyed by the herdsmen from Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba, and Plateau states. Land grabbers are trying to take over people\u2019s lands that do not belong to them. Farmers are complaining daily of cattle overtaking their lands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding trust requires frankness. We have to be very frank. Our problem is that we don\u2019t look often in the mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Urges Nigerians to kick against Hate Speech Bill <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He encouraged Nigerian youths to resist the passage of the Hate Speech Bill, adding that it was ironical for him to condemn the Hate Speech Bill as he has received a litany of hate speeches and disparaging languages by Nigerians when he said he was not going to be in a community ruled by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka said:\u00a0 \u201cI received hate speeches and languages when I said I was not going to be part of the United States community. I was cursed and received hate speeches and now you want me to condemn the hate speech. I don\u2019t want anybody to be hanged but I want them to be shamed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why I said I just want us to look in the mirror. I just want people to stop hate speeches.\u2019\u2019 He also condemned Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, for his comments on why communities blocked grazing routes, and expect herdsmen not to react.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that the excuse of some herdsmen for invading some communities in the South was that Lake Chad had dried up.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka noted that Nigeria was not the first country to experience natural disasters and that this was not an excuse to take guns to destabilise other peace-loving people in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have become laughing stocks in the eyes of the public. We have earned the term of a shithole. Nigeria is sick and empty. Some retrogressive forces won\u2019t just stop.\u00a0 Everything Nigeria touches rusts,\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>he said. In the past two weeks, President Buhari has visited Yobe, Benue, Taraba and Plateau states, in view of the killings by herdsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Vanguard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned playwright and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop shedding unjust tears and deal with bloodthirsty terrorists unleashing mayhem in the country. 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