Wole Soyinka, foremost Nigerian
playwright and political activist, says former President Jonathan dismissed him
when he reached the president over the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls
in Chibok, Borno state.
“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 (Chibok),
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 said.
“His exact words to me, not
easily forgotten I assure you, were ‘Kampala tie niyen,’ meaning that is your
own Kampala.”
He said Jonathan waited for
nearly three weeks before accepting the fact that over 200 schoolgirls had been
abducted in Chibok.
“He said the opposition was only
using this to discredit his government, and precious days to have rescued the
girls were lost,” he said.
Soyinka explained that the origin
of ‘Kampala tie niyen’ takes us back to the nation’s recent ‘Kampala’ that is
the Dapchi abduction.
In the Yoruba parlance, Kampala
are hand-dyed fabrics using traditional wax methods. And when one is told that
‘Kampala tie niyen,’ it loosely means the ‘Kampala’ is for the person to
hand-dye by himself.
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Of what use is "revelation" now? What did Buhari tell since you've been talking to the nation about Dapchi abduction? If anything it is Buhari that has a lesion to learn from Chibok incident.
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