Wole Soyinka has revealed the reaction of former Nigeria President
Goodluck Jonathan to the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok during
his tenure.
The Nobel Laureate said that when he reached out to Dr. Jonathan in
the wake of the Chibok abduction, the former president dismissed him.
Speaking on Thursday at a dialogue organized by Ripples Centre for
Data and Investigative Journalism in Lagos, the Nigerian playwright said
Jonathan told him that the abduction of the schoolgirls was his own
business and he should deal with it
.
He said Jonathan believed the opposition was using the abduction to
discredit his government, and it wasn't until three weeks after the
incident that Jonathan acknowledged that over 200 girls had indeed been
abducted in Chibok, Borno state.
Soyinka said: "I reached out to former President Jonathan, and
protested, chiding him severely on his reaction over the abduction of
the Chibok girls. I said to him; ‘you want to be accepted as a political
leader, and you do not even accept as your duty to be there, at the
scene of the disaster?’ And I asked him, did you actually utter those
words attributed to you? His response remains a riddle to me till
today."
He continued: "His exact words to me, not easily forgotten I assure
you, were ‘Kampala tie niyen,’ meaning that is your own Kampala."
With history repeating itself in Dapchi where schoolgirls were
recently abducted, Soyinka said that rather than visiting the affected
areas, Buhari should speak to people’s security needs, and bring
perpetrators to book. He said that failure on the part of government has
been the reason the country is yet to get over the security challenges.
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