Our Soldiers Have Gone Mad Again - Wole Soyinka Laments
Following the mayhem caused by military personnel last Friday at Palmgrove, Lagos, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has likened Nigerian soldiers to the deadly Boko Haram sect.
Prof. Wole Soyinka
Speaking on Saturday night at the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature
in Africa, the Nobel laureate labelled as barbaric the act of soldiers
who went on rampage, burning some BRT buses on Ikorodu road, Lagos.
Describing the soldiers’ attack on innocent people as madness,
Soyinka took a cue from the late Prof. Ola Rotimi, in his social work,
‘Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again’ saying "our soldiers have gone mad
again.”
Soyinka said, "Totally out of control, treacherous because
they’re attacking civilians rather than protecting civilians, simply
because of a collective, that is selective, mentally wound on their ego.
"But when they turn around on citizens simply because one of them
was accidentally killed on the road, then I have to consider them as
allies of Boko Haram."
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