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.
He made the call while delivering the keynote paper at a dialogue organized by Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism in Lagos on Thursday, Soyinka said “what we need now is justice and not sympathy.”
He said rather than visiting the affected areas, Buhari should seek ways to bring perpetrators of such crime to book.
“I get impatient when I hear things like Buhari has failed to go and sympathize with the people of Benue, with the people of Nassarawa, with the people of Dapchi or wherever,” he said.
“Who needs sympathy? Is it sympathy that will reorder their broken lives? Is sympathy the issue? We are speaking here of one commodity that i fundamentally human deserving, justice.” He asked.
“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.”
In the past weeks, Buhari has visited Yobe, Benue and Plateau states.