Professor Soyinka, in a statement made available to P.M.News stressed that president Yar’Adua’s lukewarm attitude towards the Niger Delta imbroglio was too glaring to allow the effectiveness of the amnesty being dangled by the government before the militants operating in the area.

Soyinka, who claimed that Obasanjo’s administration thrived in deceit as the “Ota farmer fabricated a lot of deceitful motions… to provide a cover for ensuring the statusquo”, also maintained that President Yar’Adua on his own has decided not to be bothered with the problems of the region.

“As MEND statements have periodically emphasized, the Delta crisis is the more purulent tip of the Nigerian boil, now prodded into a violent eruption in a particular region.

“Over and over again it has been stressed that nothing but a holistic approach to internal restructuring will serve the nation,” Soyinka said, while maintaining that this approach would provide a context within which the aggrieved oil-producing area can feel a genuine relatedness to the national question.

The Nobel Laureate said that within the two years in the present administration, the president has shown several actions that have resulted in distrust among the country’s citizens.

He also expressed fears that the amnesty being offered the militants might just be another cocooned victim of purposed inertia owing to the non-implementation of several recommendations by the various committees set up to investigate the Niger Delta issue and come up with resolutions

He has been talking too much recently.

babaearly:

He has been talking too much recently.

Of course, you dont like to hear the truth.

Soyinka, please carry on. . . . you have always spoken the truth and will never cease to do so. . .

Talking aint bad. . .action is what is needed.
As they say, actions are louder than words.
Question is, what can he do?