Make killer herdsmen pay for their crimes, Soyinka urges Buhari
He said this
would send a strong warning that the Buhari administration would not tolerate
forceful land seizure anywhere in Nigeria.
Soyinka
stated this in a statement on Wednesday, titled “On demand: A language of
non-capitulation, non-appeasement.’
The Nobel
laureate said that Buhari’s claim that it was unjust for the public to accuse
him of being silent on the killer herdsmen’s activities was based on Nigerians’
observation of his “erstwhile language of complacency and accommodativeness in
the face of unmerited brutalisation.’’
He added
that Buhari had yet to speak in the language that the “murdering herdsmen”
understand by exhibiting that forceful seizure of land would not be tolerated
in any part of a federation under his governance.
Soyinka
said, “That the temporary acquisition of weapons of mass elimination by any
bunch of psychopaths and anachronistic feudal mentality will not translate into
subjugation of a people and a savaging of their communities.’’
The
playwright noted that certain unconscionable events had taken place in the
country, which cannot be ignored, adding that entire communities had been
“erased from the national landscape,” thousands of family units in mourning and
“survivors scarred and traumatised beyond measure.”
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