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henryanna36:
You won't believe there was a time in Nigeria when security officials 'humbly' arrest individuals.Pictured above is Prof. Wole Soyinka being arrested by a police officer in the good old days.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/04/see-how-prof-wole-soyinka-was-arrested.html

victorazy:
The crime then and now are not the same.

Secondly, the police then are not wearing blacks

Lai Muhamed is not a minister then, all infos were the truth nothing but the truth.

There was no political party like APC

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.

“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”.

From, "You Must Set Forth At Dawn".


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).

Goldenheart:
Good ol days , When police wear bumshots....

henryanna36:
You won't believe there was a time in Nigeria when security officials 'humbly' arrest individuals.Pictured above is Prof. Wole Soyinka being arrested by a police officer in the good old days.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/04/see-how-prof-wole-soyinka-was-arrested.html

mascot87:
But now in the year 2016 arrest

naptu2:
The moment of arrest. I'll paraphrase, but try and get the book, "You must set forth at dawn: Memoirs" by Wole Soyinka (Bookcraft, 2006).


Wole Soyinka was on his way to safety, when he realised that some of his followers might not have gotten the message that they should disband and close down their base (in Ibadan). He became worried that some of them might either proceed on some hare-brained action of their own, or get arrested.

He drove back towards the base, saw a young collaborator and got her to act as a courier.

However, there was an armed policeman waiting near the base. Although he arrested Soyinka, he told the professor that he would escort him wherever Soyinka wanted to go, "in case there are urgent things you wish to take care of-sensitive documents and things like that. They will come and search your house, you know. It's the least I can do for you Mr Soyinka."

tomtween:
See how the police give am enough space unlike the present police that will hijack the hell out of a suspect until one part of the suspect's waist becomes higher than the other......

tomtween:
See how the police give am enough space unlike the present police that will hijack the hell out of a suspect until one part of the suspect's waist becomes higher than the other......

henryanna36:
You won't believe there was a time in Nigeria when security officials 'humbly' arrest individuals.Pictured above is Prof. Wole Soyinka being arrested by a police officer in the good old days.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/04/see-how-prof-wole-soyinka-was-arrested.html

Faru1:
you are making me laf......
be like say you got the experience before?
or you see one before like I did.

tomtween:
See how the police give am enough space unlike the present police that will hijack the hell out of a suspect until one part of the suspect's waist becomes higher than the other......

Julietcutie:
lol one of d suspect waist become higher than the other ....that part got me laughing my intestines out.. lwkmd

ramdris:
That's because they were not wearing [size=50pt] BLACK UNIFORM[/size] then

tomtween:
See how the police give am enough space unlike the present police that will hijack the hell out of a suspect until one part of the suspect's waist becomes higher than the other......

henryanna36:
You won't believe there was a time in Nigeria when security officials 'humbly' arrest individuals.Pictured above is Prof. Wole Soyinka being arrested by a police officer in the good old days.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/04/see-how-prof-wole-soyinka-was-arrested.html