₦airaland Forum

AnanseK:
The truth is that Soyinka like many , did not know Buhari at all. He only believed in rumors and cheap character assassination stories filling those Nigerian media aggressively hostile to Buhari all those years. He (Soyinka), like multitude of others, is knowing Buhari for the first time.

obrian:
Noble words from a Nobel Laureate

patriot4:
Man you are playing fast and lose with the word "truth". Actually, you should use the expression "in my opinion". And still, it would be a lie. Many nigerians these days have turned into great propagandists, it has become a second nature. For your info soyinka wasn't born yesterday, he was there (as a man in his prime) to witness buhari's "reign of terror" (soyinka's own words). And soyinka gave his personal accounts of how terrible buhari was. I really don't see what justification soyinka has to radically change his mind, nothing except for money chageing hands.

patriot4:
soyinka, as a postgraduate, I get disappointed in you each day.
You have become a full fledged politician, and I suspect you have always been.
Soyinka, you are far from being the intelligent man I thought you were.
For your information, soyinka, the word corruption doesn't have a universal meaning. Indeed to heterosexuals, homosexuality is corruption, to passionate musicians singing with the help of electronics is corruption, to people against alcool, drinking alcool is corruption. And depending on your religious beliefs, corruption can mean different things. For muslims, eating porc is corruption, speaking ill of mohamed is corruption, not being a muslim is corruption. For christians not being a monotheist is corruption, not going to church is corruption. for atheists being religious is corruption. Also when a thief is being arraigned by the police for stealing an orange, nobody considers that thief a corrupt man. When someone rubs a bank and steals large sums of money, nobody calls him corrupt. I expected a university professor to know all this. How disappointed I am in soyinka who I thought was a world citizen and an intelligent man.

Icecomrade:
Why would Buhari not be a different man

When he can no longer wear those Khaki that made him feel like a Terror with Babariga that makes him feel less powerful.

When he no longer lords over Tribunals with civil processes to contend with.

When he no longer lords over Supreme Military council but sitting at the Mercy of the National Assembly.

When his statements are no longer decrees and edits but mere statements which can only be considered when it is packaged by scholars on his pay list and forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration.

When he can't bundle his enemies and throw them into jail without due process and litigation hanging over his neck.

What's Special about Wole Soyinka's statement? That guy is idle. Since he lost touch of writing, he has been ranting around like an Akwuya

dammylohlah:
How can a public figure, an intelligent person like that, come out to tell the public that corruption is not stealing? Then you should have asked him, what then is corruption? The media should have challenged him.”



Uniport certificate is questionable. I cant employ any uniport graduate in my company.

kaypound:
what do you need his apology for.....
I believe his redeemed image today and him trying put Nigeria back on the map is enough apology for the mistakes he made in the past.

patriot4:
soyinka, as a postgraduate, I get disappointed in you each day.
You have become a full fledged politician, and I suspect you have always been.
Soyinka, you are far from being the intelligent man I thought you were.
For your information, soyinka, the word corruption doesn't have a universal meaning. Indeed to heterosexuals, homosexuality is corruption, to passionate musicians singing with the help of electronics is corruption, to people against alcool, drinking alcool is corruption. And depending on your religious beliefs, corruption can mean different things. For muslims, eating porc is corruption, speaking ill of mohamed is corruption, not being a muslim is corruption. For christians not being a monotheist is corruption, not going to church is corruption. for atheists being religious is corruption. Also when a thief is being arraigned by the police for stealing an orange, nobody considers that thief a corrupt man. When someone rubs a bank and steals large sums of money, nobody calls him corrupt. I expected a university professor to know all this. How dissappointed I am in soyinka who I thought was a world citizen and an intelligent man.

patriot4:
When was the last time you said a thief stealing an orange was corrupt ?
When did you see an armed who just rubbed a bank and say he was corrupt.?
You see there are some words which don't have a precise definition, but those words have feelings associated to them.



You see, it all becomes clear when you use first order logics. Consider the two objects "stealing" and "corruption".
You will have to conclude that: not (stealing = corruption).
Although if you consider "stealing" and "corruption" like two sets of committed or to be committed offenses, then some would have the opinion that stealing is included in corruption: Stealing < Corruption.

ramalot:
You have written off the Professor as an "unintelligent man," because you happen to disagree with something he said. Does that nullify everything else he is indubitably great at?

I did not dwell on your attention to detail in your paragraph, as we all make typographical errors. However, it appears you did not read the second half of my comment.

That second (and longer) half attempted to show why your logic appears flawed. Your attempt to justify the statement that "stealing is not corruption" is not convincing. All you've done is sub-categorize other aspects of human society that may be labelled as "corrupt," in the context of that group/society.

While all those categorizations are indeed true, how does that remove "stealing" from the sub-category? It does NOT appear to.

Let me know why stealing is NOT an act of corruption.

FYI I have zero interest in Nigerian politics and partisan bickering. If your driving motive is some allegiance to Jonathan, Buhari, political parties etc, then don't bother responding. I only engage in common sense conversations which stimulate reasoning, and not biased rhetoric.

patriot4:
soyinka, as a postgraduate, I get disappointed in you each day.
You have become a full fledged politician, and I suspect you have always been.
Soyinka, you are far from being the intelligent man I thought you were.
For your information, soyinka, the word corruption doesn't have a universal meaning. Indeed to heterosexuals, homosexuality is corruption, to passionate musicians singing with the help of electronics is corruption, to people against alcool, drinking alcool is corruption. And depending on your religious beliefs, corruption can mean different things. For muslims, eating porc is corruption, speaking ill of mohamed is corruption, not being a muslim is corruption. For christians not being a monotheist is corruption, not going to church is corruption. for atheists being religious is corruption. Also when a thief is being arraigned by the police for stealing an orange, nobody considers that thief a corrupt man. When someone rubs a bank and steals large sums of money, nobody calls him corrupt. I expected a university professor to know all this. How dissappointed I am in soyinka who I thought was a world citizen and an intelligent man.

jlinkd78:
'owe' I know but this ur 'whole' I fear

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