{"id":25750,"date":"2021-04-25T08:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T07:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=25750"},"modified":"2021-04-25T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T07:12:12","slug":"nigeria-is-at-war-says-soyinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/25\/nigeria-is-at-war-says-soyinka\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria is at war, says Soyinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to seek help in tackling the problem of insecurity facing the country, saying Nigeria is currently at war.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka spoke while reacting to the brutal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/23\/breaking-bandits-kill-three-abducted-greenfield-university-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing of three of the abducted students of Greenfield University<\/a>, Kaduna in a statement entitled \u2018The Endless Martyrdom Of Youths\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cAbukakar Atiku had summed up the nation\u2019s feeling \u2013 this most recent savagery against our youth is heartbreaking. More than the heart is broken however, more than millions of individual hearts that still lay claim to bonds in a common humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the already over-stretched sinews of moral restraint had been snapped off the casing of nation being, saying nothing was left but the collective wails of impotence.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cNot for the first time, what many hoped was a Natural Law of Limitations has been contemptuously, defiantly breached. We need to remind ourselves of hideous precedents. We must remember Chibok. And Dapchi. And numerous antecedents and after, unpublicized, or soon relegated to the sump of collective amnesia. The wages of impunity never diminish, on the contrary, they distend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The literary icon added that the people\u2019s greatest fear, with this latest feat of cowardly savagery was that the nation must brace itself for a Beslan scenario, yet strive to avoid Nigeria becoming Africa\u2019s Cherchnya.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, those who had been proven weak and incapable must learn to swallow their vain pride and seek help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, this is no new counseling, but of course the dog that will get lost no longer heeds the hunter\u2019s whistle. I envy no one the task ahead, terminating the toxic harvest of past derelictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlame laying is for later. Right now is the question of \u2013 what needs to be done, and done urgently. We keep avoiding the inevitable, but that very unthinkable now hammers brutishly on our gates, the blood ransom arrogantly insatiable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis nation is at war, yet we continue to pretend that these are mere birth-pangs of a glorious entity. They are death throes. Vultures and undertakers hover patiently but with full confidence,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka added: \u201cThe dogs of war stopped merely baying years ago. Again and again they have sunk their fangs into the jugular of this nation. The plague called COVID has met its match on the earth of some nation space once known as Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Laureate said he grieved with the bereaved, but mourned even more for the youth so routinely sacrificed, burdened with uncertainty and traumatised beyond youth\u2019s capacity to cope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this government we repeat the public cry: Seek Help. Stop Improvising with Human Lives. Youth \u2013 that is, the future \u2013 should not serve as Ritual Offering on the altar of a failing state,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to seek help in tackling the problem of insecurity facing the country, saying Nigeria is currently at war. 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