LAGOS — Prof. Wole Soyinka has lamented the rising level of insecurity in the country leading to killings, kidnappings, and violence in several states.
The Nobel laureate who spoke on the sidelines of a media briefing held in Lagos on Thursday with the theme, Forget the past, forfeit the future: A nation seceding from humanity, said many Nigerians go out unsure they would return home safely.
According to him, the country needs help to tame insecurity.
“This government needs help, it no longer can cope,” he said.
“It has been going on for years and I don’t know if the citizens of this country should live under such a cloud, such uncertainty: get up in the morning and you don’t know if you would get back at night.”
The playwright, noting that the problem has been lingering for a while, blamed the judiciary, impunity, and other issues for contributing to the problem.
He explained, “There has been laxity; there has been the encouragement of impunity; there has been compromised even within the judicial so that cases are not solved in time and seem to be solved very objectively.
“There has been, of course, the sieving of money intended for the military to combat insurgency whether of the religious or the secular kind is known as banditry.
“So, it is a multi-level situation and it did not begin just now. If we don’t keep stressing that, we would never get to the root of the problem.”
Ezinwanne Onwuka, senior staff reporter and columnist with WAP is a Nigerian-based writer and content developer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her interests include reading, writing, researching and graphic designing.
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