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Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by BeeBeeOoh(m): 5:10am On Apr 30, 2018
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said Nigeria is on a terminal nose-dive and that its pilot, who he noted is missing, must cry for international help as many had advised.

Soyinka, who stated this in a statement he issued on Sunday titled, “May Day! May Day!! May Day!!!,” in commemoration of the 2018 Workers’ Day described the ongoing killings in the country as “ethic cleansing.”

The critic, who said May Day, that he uttered thrice, signified a distress call, adding that long before its adoption for that function, however, and more traditionally, there did exist Labour (or Workers’) Day, dedicated to the entitlement of workers to the value and dignity of their labour.

He noted that the Nigerian constituency was left to determine which attribution – or both, or none – was deafeningly clamorous on May 1, 2018.

Soyinka stated, “No matter, one feels it a duty to call the attention to the painful convergence of both appropriations. Could such a co-option serve equally as summons for a last-chance, eleventh hour reprieve?”

The celebrated playwright also drew what he termed ‘eerie parallels’ in the country’s current situation to a “certain May Day disorder, one in which that distress call was never heard.”

He further likened the present state of things in Nigeria to the Aeroflot Flight 593 of September 28, 1994 in which all passengers died because the captain unprofessionally left the pilot’s seat for his family members while he went to salute the passengers.

Soyinka said, “After preliminary official denials, the undeniable – and tragically inappropriate factor of the crash was formally acknowledged – a laissez-faire, unprofessional conduct with human lapses, among which nepotism – by that, or any other name-loomed large. The captain was not even in the pilot’s seat – others were! They were the pilot’s family – mostly his children. The family member who actually begun the spiral of disaster by pulling the wrong control leaver was – the Captain’s son, to whom his even younger daughter, some moments earlier, had yielded the controls. The pilot’s seat had been turned into a family game of musical chairs.

“Where was the Captain? Somewhere along the aisle, saluting the passengers – all quite proper, and indeed encouraged by regulations. He had placed the plane on auto-pilot – just as this nation has been for some time – so he walked between the seats, dispensing and acknowledging greetings – it was a long flight to Hong Kong, after all.

“The plane went into a sharp turn after the wrong lever was pulled, and the auto-pilot disengaged. The original flight pattern was annulled -does that echo a campaign manifesto? – and the plane was now in unqualified hands. It took ages for the pilot to regain his control seat as some passengers were already tumbling from their seats into the aisle and he had to fight his way through bodily obstacles. All that, from reconstruction of events.

The ‘black box’ – or flight recorder – indicates that the pilot never even got round to shouting ‘May Day’ over the radio – he was too busy struggling to restore the plane’s technical functions, shout instructions, pull the plane out of a nose-dive, and attempt to right the craft – too late!

“Now flash forwards one decade to our present, and recall the number of desperate organisations calling on the Nigerian captain to bury his pride and cry ‘May Day” across all airwaves. Call out for international help to rescue a nation on its terminal nose-dive!

“There has been no sign of willing, while the screwed-up plane is now in its corkscrew dive. Even if this captain regains his seat before the crash, it is open season whether or not, like SUV Flight 593, it will not stall, and head straight for Zuma rockface. Strangers are in control in the cockpit. Put simply, the captain is missing. The rockface is in right in our faces.”

He further called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order all land usurpers in the affected towns and villages across the country to vacate the forcefully occupied lands within 48 hours.

Soyinka urged him to order the military and the police to treat illegal land occupiers as terrorists wherever they were found.

He said, “Give a nationwide order to all land-usurpers in the affected towns and villages across the nation to quit those forcefully occupied lands within a forty-eight hours deadline.

“Issue orders to the military and police that, wherever illegal occupiers are found, they should be meted the same treatment as are accorded terrorists. Instruct all agencies that, once cleared of usurpers, the rightful occupants should be escorted back to their farmsteads and villages and provided maximum protection.”

Saying that the government must go beyond arresting a token handful of herders caught with arms, he added that there were still hundreds of them in the forests.

He added, “It is not enough to back the anti-open grazing laws, so late in the day, but we shall leave that for later. Right now, the violated and dispossessed demand restitution, and with no further delay or subterfuge. All available forces should be deployed to right a hideous, unprecedented wrong that has left the nation drowning in blood – we simply cannot continue one day longer to endure this forceful feeding of human blood.

“The plain expression is “ethnic cleansing” and we must not beat around the bush. The shade of Rwanda hangs over the nation. Afterwards, we can move into reckoning. This spells meticulous investigation, identifying the high-placed sponsors within this nation, some of whom have launched mercenary units to intensify carnage and chaos in order to stem the stride of Nemesis closing in on them for past criminalities, and the cascade of corrupt revelations.”

The celebrated playwright queried what the minister of defence, who allegedly openly justified the homicidal rampage of nomadic herdsmen, was still doing in the Buhari government.

Soyinka noted that there were still other pressing and disturbing questions which would be held back for now in order not “to impede the pressing imperatives and humane priorities of the current crisis.”

“Right now, however, the agenda has to be restitution. Restitution to the displaced, the maimed, the traumatised survivors and the nation’s suppurating psyche. The torrent of internally displaced persons is a national shame, and the growing number of the kidnapped an embarrassment.

“The plane cannot remain on auto-pilot as hitherto, while the pilot strolls up and down the aisle, assuring passengers that all is well. A Happy May Day – hopefully in the not too distant future – to all who labour for humanity.”

http://www.punchng.com/killings-nigeria-experiencing-ethic-cleansing-says-soyinka/

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by freeze001(f): 5:19am On Apr 30, 2018
Oh dear Lord! This is apt! Nigeria is fast hurtling down towards God knows where because an already incompetent pilot has yielded controls to strangers up to no good.

He said, “Give a nationwide order to all land-usurpers in the affected towns and villages across the nation to quit those forcefully occupied lands within a forty-eight hours deadline.

“Issue orders to the military and police that, wherever illegal occupiers are found, they should be meted the same treatment as are accorded terrorists. Instruct all agencies that, once cleared of usurpers, the rightful occupants should be escorted back to their farmsteads and villages and provided maximum protection.”

Buhari do this one? When he's busy assuring those who know better that he has done very well on security issues in Nigeria? That'll be the day!

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by Olalan(m): 5:27am On Apr 30, 2018
The government is just useless and irresponsible for not taking this herdsmen killings and invasions, cause of their religious and tribal sentiments

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by Evablizin(f): 5:30am On Apr 30, 2018



Your grammar is good but Sai baba can't read this.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by orisa37: 5:48am On Apr 30, 2018
BeeBeeOoh:


http://www.punchng.com/killings-nigeria-experiencing-ethic-cleansing-says-soyinka/

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Cry of the Century from The Wilderness of Nigeria and when Soyinka does this, The Queen, Teresa May, Donald Trump and Putin must act fast to stop Tyrany in nigeria.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by EYIBLESSN(m): 5:50am On Apr 30, 2018
Prof. Soyinka, He talks with both sides of the mouth.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by thesicilian: 5:56am On Apr 30, 2018
They'll soon find millions of dollars hidden in Prof. Soyinka's house.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by orisa37: 6:07am On Apr 30, 2018
BeeBeeOoh:


http://www.punchng.com/killings-nigeria-experiencing-ethic-cleansing-says-soyinka/

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Gowon, OBJ, TYD, IBB, NASS and all leaders of Conxcience must impeach Buhari before Buhari impeaches them.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by blackpanda: 6:17am On Apr 30, 2018
Donpresh95:
Hit the point ma friend,

Your Yorubald brothers that claim to be literates connived with Hausa Fulani To vote in an illiterate with NEPA bill, expecting him to transform the country to London Funny Right?

What East saw sitting can never be seen by Upper upper Even on top of a tree


See this ethnic bigot making useless noise

Run back to bed child!

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by anibirelawal(m): 6:34am On Apr 30, 2018
This message strong o.
Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by Nobody: 6:36am On Apr 30, 2018
Shekau the known terrorist is just an apprentice when it comes to Brutality and killings spree to the other terrorist in asokoro

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by tayebest(m): 6:39am On Apr 30, 2018
Oh, my fellow Nigerians!

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by SalamRushdie: 6:40am On Apr 30, 2018
No need to mince words please it's very clear that the govt of Buhari is carrying out a policy of deliberate ethnic cleansing in the Middle belt ..

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by tayebest(m): 6:42am On Apr 30, 2018
yanabasee:
Let these herdsmen extend their brutality to the west....




Why must you drag the west to this? I mean, why have you let your brain dysfunction? undecided




To slap you just dey hungry me, I swear! angry

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by Paperwhite(m): 6:54am On Apr 30, 2018
“Issue orders to the military and police that, wherever illegal occupiers are found, they should be meted the same treatment as are accorded terrorists. Instruct all agencies that, once cleared of usurpers, the rightful occupants should be escorted back to their farmsteads and villages and provided maximum protection.”
Soyinka expects Buhari to do this Guess he now recalls but late that this is the fate of those who ride on the back of the tiger? Prof.good morning.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by northvietnam(m): 8:05am On Apr 30, 2018
Soyinka just STFU

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by Jeezuzpick(m): 8:05am On Apr 30, 2018
Ethnic cleansing?

Maybe in the central states, but even then, the Fulani will have to kill millions of people. That will need the full, overt support of the Government (e.g Radovan Karadzic's Balkan war).

What we have here is much worse except for the scale (thank God) though it can get there if it becomes a religious conflict.

What we have here is the wanton destruction of lives with impunity within a state that claims sovereignty, with the elected Government either looking the other way or covertly aiding the killings (probably both).

Why is it worse? Because the international community will not come in, guns blazing, while there is a sitting, democratically elected government. Not without said government asking them for help. Do you think this man will call for help against his kinsmen? Think again!

This is bad on a different level. Liberia was far gone before it became an international affair, and that only happened after Doe was gruesomely murdered. In what condition do you think Nigeria will be before Aso Rock is overrun? Don't even imagine it, please!

All this being said, I hope Prof is in hiding abroad already, because they will most likely come for him.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by fasho01(m): 8:07am On Apr 30, 2018
After you 'helped' put us in this mess, now you're seeking international help

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by HMZi: 8:08am On Apr 30, 2018
Silly Bubu will get his very soon...

Meanwhile,Benue people must defend themselves,my Dad keeps servicing his rifle...

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by Igba123: 8:10am On Apr 30, 2018
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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by BanevsJoker(m): 8:11am On Apr 30, 2018
Have you torn your US passport? No? Then STFU.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by brodalokie: 8:11am On Apr 30, 2018
Ethnicity in Nigerian politics needs to be beaten to the corner as light does to darkness in the morning.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by Omeokachie: 8:12am On Apr 30, 2018
Failed nation

Buhari have succeeded in burying a United country that he inherited.

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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by three: 8:15am On Apr 30, 2018
How does the saying go?


"A leopard doesn't change his spots?"

As an elder you should have

1. Engaged with Jonathan's topsy-turvy government (Check) wehdon sah!
2. With decorum (Un-check) you referred to no less than the wife of the President as a Shepopotamus!
3. Seeing that Jonathan sought to recontest you should have criticised the move (Check)
4. Supported a more progressive, more visionary, more competent, more detribalised, more exposed, more self reflective, more younger?, more mature (age is not always maturity, more capable candidate (Un-check) you instead allied with Amaechi and Tinubu and supported a candidate who is determined to replicate 1983/84 and whose tenure then you are well aware and have criticised on record.


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Re: Nigeria Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing, Needs International Help - Soyinka Says by jimrog: 8:18am On Apr 30, 2018
Paperwhite:
“Issue orders to the military and police that, wherever illegal occupiers are found, they should be meted the same treatment as are accorded terrorists. Instruct all agencies that, once cleared of usurpers, the rightful occupants should be escorted back to their farmsteads and villages and provided maximum protection.”
Soyinka expects Buhari to do this Guess he now recalls but late that this is the fate of those who ride on the back of the tiger? Prof.good morning.

But is there any land usurper? This ppl attack and run. They don't stay and host their flag like bokoharam na..

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