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"This nation is at war, yet we continue to pretend that these are mere birth-pangs of a glorious entity. They are death throes..."

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said Nigeria is pretending not to know that it is at war.

In a statement on Saturday titled ‘The Endless Martyrdom of Youth’, Mr Soyinka said the country is on the brink unless an urgent action is taken.

Mr Soyinka’s statement came following the killing of three kidnapped students of Greenfield University by bandits in Kaduna and rising insecurity and violence across swathes of the nation.

Mr Soyinka, who said the nation is on the brink of chaos due to the unending bloodshed across the country, urged the nation’s leadership to seek assistance in the face of its apparent helplessness to curb the trend.

“One’s greatest fear, with this latest feat of cowardly savagery is that the nation must brace itself for a Beslan scenario, yet strive to avoid Nigeria become Africa’s Cherchnya.

“Those who have been proven weak and incapable must learn to swallow their vain pride and seek help. Again, this is no new counseling, but of course the dog that will get lost no longer heeds the hunter’s whistle. I envy no one the task ahead, terminating the toxic harvest of past derelictions.

“Blame laying is for later. Right now is the question of – what needs to be done, and done urgently. We keep avoiding the inevitable, but that very unthinkable now hammers brutishly on our gates, the blood ransom arrogantly insatiable.

“This nation is at war, yet we continue to pretend that these are mere birth-pangs of a glorious entity. They are death throes. Vultures and undertakers hover patiently but with full confidence.”

Read full statement below:

THE ENDLESS MARTYRDOM OF YOUTH

Abukakar Atiku has summed up the nation’s feeling – this most recent savagery against our youth is heartbreaking. More than the heart is broken however, more than millions of individual hearts that still lay claim to bonds in a common humanity.

The already over-stretched sinews of moral restraint have been snapped off the casing of nation being, and nothing is left but the collective wails of impotence. Not for the first time, what many hoped was a Natural Law of Limitations has been contemptuously, defiantly breached.

We need to remind ourselves of hideous precedents. We must remember Chibok. And Dapchi. And numerous antecedents and after, unpublicized, or soon relegated to the sump of collective amnesia. The wages of impunity never diminish, on the contrary, they distend.

One’s greatest fear, with this latest feat of cowardly savagery is that the nation must brace itself for a Beslan scenario, yet strive to avoid Nigeria become Africa’s Cherchnya. Those who have been proven weak and incapable must learn to swallow their vain pride and seek help.

Again, this is no new counseling, but of course the dog that will get lost no longer heeds the hunter’s whistle. I envy no one the task ahead, terminating the toxic harvest of past derelictions.

Blame laying is for later. Right now is the question of – what needs to be done, and done urgently. We keep avoiding the inevitable, but that very unthinkable now hammers brutishly on our gates, the blood ransom arrogantly insatiable.

This nation is at war, yet we continue to pretend that these are mere birth-pangs of a glorious entity. They are death throes. Vultures and undertakers hover patiently but with full confidence.

The dogs of war stopped merely baying years ago. Again and again, they have sunk their fangs into the jugular of this nation. The plague called COVID has met its match on the earth of some nation space once known as Nigeria.

I grieve with the bereaved, but mourn even more for our youth so routinely sacrificed, burdened with uncertainty and traumatized beyond youth’s capacity to cope. To this government we repeat the public cry:

Seek Help. Stop Improvising with Human Lives. Youth – that is, the the future – should not serve as Ritual Offering on the altar of a failing State.

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Mynd44
Lalasticlala

I will keep saying this, this fraud called Nigeria is a complete shithole, any day, any time, the country is gone, damaged and beyond repair, I know some folks will disagree with me, but that's your headache, I was once a patriotic Nigerian, but not anymore, the country has completely gone to the dogs, filled with hypocrites and gullible followers.

Professor, the same way you people helped in bringing Jibrin to power should also be the same way you guys should endeavour to send the notorious dullard back to his farm at Daura Where he belongs.

Soyinka forgot that he is not talking to any president.

The North is just focused on bringing down Nigeria

How I wish Nigeria could break up fast

So that Nigeria and whoever remains in Nigeria should continue fighting that war

gambia:
I will keep saying this, this fraud called Nigeria is a complete shithole, any day, any time, the country is gone, damaged and beyond repair, I know some folks will disagree with me, but that's your headache, I was once a patriotic Nigerian, but not anymore, the country has completely gone to the dogs, filled with hypocrites and gullible followers.

So WHY do you come here with your dirty self every day?

Nairaland is a NIGERIAN forum.

You must love the smell of shit, or maybe you are so used to the stench that it now smells of roses to you.

Wastrel.

Mokason288:
The North is just focused on bringing down Nigeria

How I wish Nigeria could break up fast

So that Nigeria and whoever remains in Nigeria should continue fighting that war

Put your big mouth where your dumb head is.

If Nigeria is finished, STOP coming to Nairaland, a NIGERIAN site.

Go and form your new country's new forum.

Or are you too dumb and incompetent to do that?

Nigeria`s unity is non negotiable.

Online wailings will continue and that is normal.

If you aint satisfied with one Nigeria, seek citizenship of another country.

And before you cause chaos, always know The Nigerian Armed Forces is forever gallant at decimating glaring threats. Also remember, the Nigerian Airforce just acquired Tucano jet fighters

We are at war with ourselves and we keep denying reality. It's only a matter of time.

it is reality play out when the people became a class for themself

Rosskiiku:
Put your big mouth where your dumb head is.

If Nigeria is finished, STOP coming to Nairaland, a NIGERIAN site.

Go and form your new country's new forum.

Or are you too dumb and incompetent to do that?

Typical fulani stunts! You're blind to see that totally collapse of this contraps is eminent !

Rosskiiku:
So WHY do you come here with your dirty self every day?

Nairaland is a NIGERIAN forum.

You must love the smell of shit, or maybe you are so used to the stench that it now smells of roses to you.

Wastrel.

I wont even pity your wasted soul, your mumu button is highly incredible. Nigeria is a certified zoo, whether you like it or not.

Rosskiiku:
Put your big mouth where your dumb head is.

If Nigeria is finished, STOP coming to Nairaland, a NIGERIAN site.

Go and form your new country's new forum.

Or are you too dumb and incompetent to do that?

Ewu Hausa, Northern’s are killing other Northern’s on a daily

And majority of the North are very very comfortable with the unspeakable act as long as your brother is the President

You can’t expect the whole Nigeria to be comfortable with this act while your brother
is busy recruiting Terrorist sympathizers in his government

And your only defense is Niraland

You are a disgrace to your family foooolish crackhead

AllenSpencer:
Nigeria`s unity is non negotiable.

Online wailings will continue and that is normal.

If you aint satisfied with one Nigeria, seek citizenship of another country.

And before you cause chaos, always know The Nigerian Armed Forces is forever gallant at decimating glaring threats. Also remember, the Nigerian Airforce just acquired Tucano jet fighters

Tucano jet that they will go give BokoHaram tomorrow
And claim it’s gone missing

Ewu Hausa please wake up

BECAUSE THE FULANIS ARE IGNORANTLY DETERMINED TO OCCUPY ALL THE NOOKS AND CRANNIES OF NIGERIA.

THE CALIPHATE IS NOT EVEN RENTED TO THE FULANIS. THEY'RE SQUATTERS IN SOKOTO AND IN NIGERIA.

BECAUSE THE FULANIS ARE IGNORANTLY DETERMINED TO OCCUPY ALL THE NOOKS AND CRANNIES OF NIGERIA.

THE CALIPHATE IS NOT EVEN RENTED TO THE FULANIS. THEY'RE ILLEGAL SQUATTERS IN SOKOTO AND IN NIGERIA.

BUHARI head will roll on the ground soon