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Seek international help on killiings, Soyinka tells FG

25th May 2018
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has advised the Federal Government to seek the cooperation of international communities if it cannot cope with the security challenges bedeviling the country.

Soyinka, who gave the advice, in Makurdi, yesterday when he visited Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, said he knows for sure that the international communities would come to Nigeria’s aid to tackle her security challenges.
“I do not believe in false pride. If this government cannot cope, it should not shy away from asking for international help. When human lives are concerned, in their thousands, it’s about time, if it is necessary, to return the compliment.

“But, I think it is a time for all of us to come and really probe this tumour and stop pretending that this is simply ringworm when we are actually dealing with cancer.

“It is time for government to wake up, particularly, a moment has been lost, a critical moment when this act of impunity could have been stopped.”

Soyinka who averred that the killings that are taking place in Benue and other states are targeted ethnic cleansing, lamented that instead of hunting animals for food, the killer herdsmen are now hunting human beings, an act which he described as barbaric.

“The trouble with not calling things by their proper names and, at the right time, is what leads communities, nations, and people generally to start treating a malignant tumour with Vaseline.

“Just like refusal to recognise, and at the critical moment, the nature of a particular problem that has been at the basis of the massacres going on in this region, especially Benue state. There’s no any other word for it.

“Let’s not play around with the euphemisms.

“It’s no other word but ethnic cleansing. There’s no other definition for what has been going on here. And, it’s very sad, to me, personally, to see that a nation like Nigeria, with so much human talent, has failed to learn the lesson of the history of places like Rwanda. I happen to have been very much involved in the Rwandan situation vicariously. The phenomenon of human beings rising against one another and butchering innocents in their hundreds and thousands has always being something of a mystery to me There is no other word for it let us not play around with ephenism, there is no other word but ethnic cleansing. Why should an organised force descend on sleepy villages and mull them down, men and women, old and and young children. What is the motivation?”
In his response, governor Ortom described Soyinka as a man of integrity whose words are gold and thanked him for adding his voice in addition to all that have said elsewhere and even to the authority that be concerning what is happening in Benue.

Ortom further restated his call for the arrest of the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore for making good their threats after they publicly declared that they would mobilise all Fulani against the Benue grazing law.
“This is not a hidden agenda; it’s known and those people who are perpetrating it did say it. They’re not hidden. They held press conferences, they came out and said they were going to resist our law, that they were going to do ethnic cleansing, it’s about Jihad, it’s about taking over the land, it’s not about herders and farmers clashes.”

“Now from time to time, we hear of explanation that these are Libyan mercenaries on the loose yes but who brought them here? Who shelters them, who shepherds them, who sponsors them and why?”

Rapheal

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  1. Avatar Ezekiel Okeke says:
    25th May 2018 at 6:15 am

    Nothing on earth will subdue this territory natives under fulani Political Control via fulani fraudulent criminal sultanate political government with its emirates under the dead fraudulent political name Nigeria. Nothing on earth will keep the dead fulani fraudulent criminal sultanate political government with its emirates in this natives territory. Nothing on earth will keep the dead fraudulent political name Nigeria in this natives territory. Nothing on earth will keep the enemy’s brainwashed terrorism mercenaries nickname military, police etc. in this natives territory. This territory natives must subdue the enemy under the natives Disintegrated Republics in this climax of the ongoing Revolution War of the natives which secures the natives existence and future in 21st century world. God given Victory is the natives’. Only the Sword decides. God Is With Us!!!

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  2. Avatar Mercy says:
    25th May 2018 at 2:04 pm

    Every serious minded objective individual knows this is Jihad except the VP Osinbanjo who is living in total denial being too close to the mammon of this world. Buhari’s agenda has always been the same, to Islamise Nigeria and that is why he always chose not just any Christian but Pastors as running mate,
    This is a sure way of worming his way into Christian community, particularly in the West of Nigeria where Islam already has a foothold.
    Once the middlebelt is over-powered and subdued, the Jihadists will swoop on South East to finally overrun the Nation if Nigeria continues under Buhari or indeed anyother Fulani President until they dip their Koran in the Atlantic as per Agenda.

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  3. Avatar Ezekiel Okeke says:
    25th May 2018 at 10:04 pm

    The enemy’s brainwashed terrorism mercenaries nickname military, police etc. only know conventional warfare, they know nothing about Revolutionary warfare this territory natives has in this climax of the ongoing Revolution War of the natives under the natives Disintegrated Republics. More than 99% members of the enemy’s brainwashed terrorism mercenaries nickname military, police etc. are this territory natives and in their hearts, want liberation from fulani Political Control via fulani fraudulent criminal sultanate political government with its emirates under the dead fraudulent political name Nigeria. What wins war is strategy- the fire of the natives Revolutionary warfare burns to Sokoto, burns down palace of the criminal tout parading himself as sultan, burns down palaces of the criminal touts parading themselves as emirs, burns down the criminal touts parading themselves as sultan, emirs, burns down the fraudulent political name Nigeria, burns down any this territory native in the enemy’s brainwashed terrorism mercenaries nickname military, police etc. who stood with the enemy. God given Victory is the natives’. Only the Sword decides. God Is With Us!!!

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