In his latest down-to-earth interview, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka disclosed that he has been marked for assassination by the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
Soyinka said he has reported this to the security operatives in...
the country and they even confirmed the information. He however expressed disappointment that the security operatives have not taken action on the threat.
Insisting that dialogue does not require a group to constitute itself into a terror, the Nobel Laureate said:
“I believe that one should not beg for existence. If the price of not coming to table is that you want to eliminate me, and you can do so, please do so. I am 77.
“Please, come to the debating table, but you will not persuade me simply because you have the capacity to blow me and my family up. You can simply go ahead, blow us up if you think that is the way you can do your conversation. But you will not bomb me to sit with you at table.”
Soyinka added that President Goodluck Jonathan is underestimating the desperation of the forces behind the Boko Haram sect, not considering the Islamic struggle in countries like Iraq where fundamentalist Islamic groups attack one another even in their sanctuary of worship and they retaliate with higher casualty figure.
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