Condolence Tour: Soyinka Wants Buhari To Stop Shedding ‘Unjust Tears’

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, wants President Muhammadu Buhari to halt his condolence tour of states ravaged by Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen.

Describing Buhari’s condolences as the shedding of “unjust tears”, Soyinka said Nigerians don’t need the president’s commiserations but decisive actions that will bring killings across the country to a halt.

Speaking in his keynote address at ‘Ripples Dialogue’ organised by Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism in Lagos, the poet said the Buhari administration must put in place an “internal measure” to avoid repeat of the incessant killings in the country.

“I get impatient when I hear things like Buhari has failed to go and sympathise with the people of Benue, with the people of Nassarawa, with the people of Dapchi or wherever,” said Soyinka.

“Who needs sympathy? Is it sympathy that will reorder their broken lives? Is sympathy the issue? We are speaking here of one commodity that is fundamentally human deserving, justice.

“There should an internal measure to avoid repeat. We are speaking here of a president that will respond with massive action and not showing up at the arena of human desecration to shed any unjust tears, but give orders that the bloodthirsty terrorists are brought to book,” he said.