Wole
Soyinka has expressed sadness at the government's
'I-don't-care-attitude as Fulani herdsmen go on rampage killing and
murdering people across the federation.
Prof. Wole Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has expressed shock over President
Muhammadu Buhari's silence as Fulani herdsmen murder and massacre other
Nigerians across the country.
He was speaking at the National Conference on Culture and Tourism,
on Wednesday. Soyinka said regretted why the government is yet to
provide an articulate plan to tackle the menace.
“I have yet to hear this government articulate a firm policy of
non-tolerance for the serial massacres that have become the nation’s
identification stamp.
“I have not heard an order given that any cattle herders caught
with sophisticated firearms be instantly disarmed, arrested, placed on
trial, and his cattle confiscated. The nation is treated to an
eighteen-month optimistic plan which, to make matters worse, smacks of
abject appeasement and encouragement of violence on innocents.
“When I read a short while ago, the Presidential assurance to
this nation that the current homicidal escalation between the cattle
prowlers and farming communities would soon be over, I felt mortified,” Soyinka said.
He decried government's approach to this disturbing issue saying: “He
had the solution, he said. Cattle ranches were being set up, and in
another 18 months, rustlings, destruction of livelihood and killings
from herdsmen would be ‘a thing of the past’. 18 months, he assured the
nation. I believe his Minister of Agriculture echoed that later, but
with a less dispiriting time schema."
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