soyinka being arrested in 1967...see swag

made it to the front page at last.....hmmm

Cool!

So waitin you want make we do now..make we d̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ cry ba....Smh

A great man always fighting for equity

Denrio for you CB of Tortuga!!!

.............Why was he arrest in 1967??

Who is adewale solinka

sum Pple are just Dumb...Daft,must u comment on sumtin u dnt like...SMH

@190 its not adewale solinka,its wole soyinka

That copper's got some nice thighs. Lmfao!

You should read his account of how he was arrested. It was very funny. The policeman was very sympathetic to his cause.

Soyinka was accused of being a Biafran spy

SimonAndal: That copper's got some nice thighs. Lmfao!

Wetin your eye dey find for anoda man lap?!

Soyinka looks so unfazed!. And look @ how civil his arrest is.No cuffs, no unnecessary "security" details!!
Unlike what we have now!!!.

this is what i call being arrested with your dignity still intact. Unlike what we have these day where the police would hold you on ur belt and starts pulling up ur trousers.

texazzpete:

Wetin your eye dey find for anoda man lap?!

Na gay na, that's how they cover their intention with a joke.



Even the constable get respect pass our IG's biggy belle of today

Soyinka was indeed a biafran spy. He used to bang an enugu chick and she convinced soyinka to support the biafra movement and he agreed to.

The policeman is holding nothing, not even a knife. If this happen today JTF will bundle him up and throw inside their Hillux van with 15 soldiers and guns.

DICKtator: Soyinka looks so unfazed!. And look @ how civil his arrest is.No cuffs, no unnecessary "security" details!!
Unlike what we have now!!!.

U cant compare the police of then and now. There wa more dignity in being a policeman then, U were trained to be civil. ( actually the criminals inthose days had some class) Not the thugs we have nowadays

Wow, looks more like "Escort" to me.

Time have changed really, times have changed. *SMH

OR maybe we should revert our Nigerian Police Uniform to Shorts?

@OP obviously doesn't know the meaning of arrest. How does this picture look anything like an arrest? It looks more like the one was accompanying the other. Soyinka would be under some restraint if this was an arrest. You should have observed that the publication was wrong.

executinal: .............Why was he arrest in 1967??

LOL. No wonder.

Something I wrote last year. Posted it on the legends thread.

In October 1965, he was arrested and charged with holding up a radio station at gunpoint and replacing the tape of a speech by the premier of Western Nigeria, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, with a different one accusing the premier of election malpractice.

“It all proceeded according to plan. The duty officers responded as any sensible person would under the gun, removed the premier’s tape and replaced it with mine. It ran long enough for the message to the government to be clearly transmitted – drop your stolen mandate, leave town and take your reprobates with you etc. etc. Then a disbelieving senior operator in another control room roused himself from his paralysis, rushed into the studio and cut off the transmission. By that time I had slipped away. My retreat was unhindered”.

Wole Soyinka was declared wanted for stealing the tape of the premier’s speech. He went into hiding, first in Ibadan and later in the Eastern Region. The government of the Eastern Region and the Eastern Region police were sympathetic to his cause. The Federal Police found out that he was in the East and guessed that he would be at Professor Sam Aluko’s house, so they sent a signal to the Eastern Region police to search for him there. The following ensued.

“They arrived as promised, armed with copies of the WANTED notice that was now home to my photograph. A charade ensued. Sam accompanied them as they looked through the rooms, one after the other, passed through the living room where I was seated, looked right through me as through a windowpane. Content with the futility of their mission, they sat down with the Aluko family in the same living room. With a straight face, they enquired of Sam Aluko if he had any news of me. Sam shook his head in the negative. Well, be sure to keep us informed if he makes contact – we’ll leave this WANTED notice with you in case you lay eyes on anyone resembling him – again looking straight through me as I sat sipping my coffee”.

In 1967 Wole Soyinka journeyed to Biafra to meet with Odumegwu Ojukwu, Chinua Achebe, etc. in order to find a solution to the brewing crisis that was to later lead to the civil war. He also met Colonel Victor Banjo, who told him that he did not believe in Biafra, but rather, intended to lead a third force (The Liberation Army of Nigeria) to invade Lagos and overthrow Yakubu Gowon. Victor Banjo asked Soyinka to help him deliver a message to Obafemi Awolowo, Olusegun Obasanjo (General Officer Commanding the troops in the West) and other Western leaders.

Soyinka, with the help of an officer in military intelligence, called Obasanjo. Obasanjo said he had to search for the source of the mysterious ringing that he eventually traced to a phone in a wardrobe in his bedroom. They agreed on a rendezvous and also agreed to attend the meeting alone and unarmed. However, they both arrived at the rendezvous with “lookouts” and escorts. Obasanjo later admitted that he was also armed at the time. They succeeded in losing their lookouts and escorts and Soyinka delivered Banjo’s message. Banjo wanted Obasanjo to stand aside and grant him free passage through the West on his journey to unseat Gowon in Lagos. Obasanjo, in reply, refused to grant free passage to Banjo, stating that he had sworn an oath of loyalty to Lagos and so he was loyal to whoever was in command in Lagos. He suggested that Banjo could get to Lagos through other means, for instance, over water via Okitipupa.

Soyinka was declared wanted by the government (he was even branded a Biafran spy), arrested and detained for two years and four months (he spent a year and ten months of that time in solitary confinement).

venorite: @190 its not adewale solinka,its wole soyinka

pls i dont knw d guy, is he a football legend?

Wish our policemen could still be using this kind of uniform

Picture of baby SoyinKa in 1955 ĹƠ̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴̴̴͡L 

Prof looking comfortable with his arrest!

logica: LOL. No wonder.

This is inside story. I guess this is not my great prof speaking himself

naptu2: Something I wrote last year. Posted it on the legends thread.

In October 1965, he was arrested and charged with holding up a radio station at gunpoint and replacing the tape of a speech by the premier of Western Nigeria, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, with a different one accusing the premier of election malpractice.



Wole Soyinka was declared wanted for stealing the tape of the premier’s speech. He went into hiding, first in Ibadan and later in the Eastern Region. The government of the Eastern Region and the Eastern Region police were sympathetic to his cause. The Federal Police found out that he was in the East and guessed that he would be at Professor Sam Aluko’s house, so they sent a signal to the Eastern Region police to search for him there. The following ensued.





In 1967 Wole Soyinka journeyed to Biafra to meet with Odumegwu Ojukwu, Chinua Achebe, etc. in order to find a solution to the brewing crisis that was to later lead to the civil war. He also met Colonel Victor Banjo, who told him that he did not believe in Biafra, but rather, intended to lead a third force (The Liberation Army of Nigeria) to invade Lagos and overthrow Yakubu Gowon. Victor Banjo asked Soyinka to help him deliver a message to Obafemi Awolowo, Olusegun Obasanjo (General Officer Commanding the troops in the West) and other Western leaders.

Soyinka, with the help of an officer in military intelligence, called Obasanjo. Obasanjo said he had to search for the source of the mysterious ringing that he eventually traced to a phone in a wardrobe in his bedroom. They agreed on a rendezvous and also agreed to attend the meeting alone and unarmed. However, they both arrived at the rendezvous with “lookouts” and escorts. Obasanjo later admitted that he was also armed at the time. They succeeded in losing their lookouts and escorts and Soyinka delivered Banjo’s message. Banjo wanted Obasanjo to stand aside and grant him free passage through the West on his journey to unseat Gowon in Lagos. Obasanjo, in reply, refused to grant free passage to Banjo, stating that he had sworn an oath of loyalty to Lagos and so he was loyal to whoever was in command in Lagos. He suggested that Banjo could get to Lagos through other means, for instance, over water via Okitipupa.

Soyinka was declared wanted by the government (he was even branded a Biafran spy), arrested and detained for two years and four months (he spent a year and ten months of that time in solitary confinement).

Could this be the reason why Soyinka hates Obasanjo with a passion?

Lols. See old school police.

Such a tribalistic story that has made the frontpage...which agenda is been pushed here.

Hmmm...that was before OIL BUM.....OIL BUM reach police dey cuff and koboko people