Soyinka Scolds Musa Over Comment On Amotekun

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has criticised the former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, over his comment that the recently launched Operation Amotekun would lead to secession of Yoruba ethnic nationality.

The security task force was launched recently by the six South-West governors to tackle kidnapping, banditry and other crimes ravaging the region.

Many leaders from the region supported the initiative  while  the Federal Government through the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, describing it as illegal.

Musa in an interview granted to one of the National newspapers said the new outfit would lead to the declaration of Oduduwa Republic.

But Soyinka in a statement, on Tuesday, said Balarabe was wrong with his position on Amotekun.

He said, “Balarabe is sadly but I hope not tragically wrong. I invoke the tragic dimension here because the making of tragedy, especially for nations, often begins when fears are mistaken or promoted as facts, and governments either by themselves, or together with interest groups, are enticed by fears into embarking on precipitate, irrational, and irreversible acts.

“Such acts turn out, in the end, to be based on nothing but fears, sometimes generated by guilt over past injustices, such as inequitable dealing. That is the basis of tragedy, towards which nations are propelled by a partial, or wrongful reading of socio-political realities and- history. I would like to see this nation avoid such a blunder. So, I am certain, would Balarabe Musa”.

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