Amotekun: Soyinka chides Balarabe Musa for raising spectre of seccission

690

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has chided,former governor of Kaduna state,Balarabe Musa over his comment on western security outfit Amotekun saying such a comment from leaders like that amounts to‘raising spectre of secession a facile approach to the dangerous, self-evident lapses in governance’.

The Nobel laureate said that such accusations against Amotekun “is sadly, but I hope not tragically, wrong.”
He alluded that comments like the one attributed to the former Kaduna state governor bus akin the steps towards making of tragedy by nations adding, “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.”
He argued further that raising such a spectre of secession by the Yoruba nation,” is a facile approach to the dangerous, self-evident lapses in governance which Balarabe himself acknowledges in his response to the Amotekun principle made flesh.”
He wondered why Musa would make such a statement when promoters of the outfit have maintained that theirs is a contribution towards reducing the insecurity in the country.
“The midwives of Amotekun have repeatedly acknowledged that theirs is only a contribution towards a crisis of escalating proportions.
Other states should be encouraged to emulate, not misread, such initiatives, then demonize them by false attributions. That is the certain recipe for tragedy.” He concluded in the statement released in Lagos today.

Kindly support the growth of journalism in Nigeria

Reactions to stories published can be sent to us at [email protected]


Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *