
Former Anambra governor Mr. Peter Obi presenting Professor Wole Soyinka with a plaque at the event
Renowned playwright and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to speak to people's security needs, as well as bring an end to the incessant clashes between farmers and herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents.
The forum, an initiative of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism (RCDIJ) with support from Ripples Nigeria drew participants from the public, organised private sector, academia, media, members of the diplomatic corps and several others.
While expressing displeasure on the current situation of the country, he advised that concrete efforts needed to be made to safe Nigeria's future.
"This is another attempt to silence criticism. But now I can call them Fulani herdsmen because they have identified themselves as Fulani herdsmen", Soyinka said.
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The Nobel laureate said during a visit to an quake ravaged Haiti, herdsmen had no sticks nor AK-47s.
Soyinka lamented that the excuse of some herdsmen for invading some communities in the south is that the Lake Chad has dried up. Of massacre and of those whose farmlands and properties have been destroyed by the herdsmen from Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba and Plateau states.
Wole Soyinka, on Thursday blamed leadership failure and poor followership at all levels for Nigeria's socio-economic problems.
He explained that the nation was not the first country to experience natural disasters, and that this was not an excuse to take guns to destabilize other peace loving people in their communities.
Also present were economist and management expert, Dr Pat Utomi; Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi; Human rights activist, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, and Dr Reuben Abati.
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