Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called for a
national mobilisation to combat the menace of insecurity bedeviling the
country.
He stated this on Saturday while featuring on an Arise TV
programme.
Soyinka also said Nigeria has reached the “stage of
desperation” and the government should be willing to “pay people to come and
help us” in defence against Boko Haram insurgents, bandits, and other criminal
elements.
The Nobel Laureate berated some northern governors for
negotiating with bandits and criminal elements, saying, “You don’t appease
evil; we are dealing with evil, there is no other word, we are dealing with the
proliferation, the enthronement of evil in the society. And unfortunately, we
have encouraged its manifestation, its proliferation, its entrenchment.
“So, let them get away with the issue of sovereignty. If
they have to pay people to come and help us, then call them whatever you want.
Please go ahead because we’ve reached that stage of desperation.
“But I will prefer a general mobilisation in which people
are trained, farmers especially are trained to work with the hoe in one hand
and the gun in the other hand, ready to protect their lives, their harvests and
the rest of us.
“We are not unique, history is full of those situations…I
will like to see a national mobilisation. Let’s be practical.”
At least 43 rice farmers were beheaded by Boko Haram
terrorists in Borno State last November.
Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum, had consequently urged
the Federal Government to engage mercenaries and the militaries of neighbouring
countries like Chad, Cameroon to crush the over ten years Boko Haram
insurgency.
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