You’re Responsible For Benue Successive Killings, Soyinka Blasts Buhari

Noble laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the successive killings in Benue State.

He made the allegation when he paid a courtesy visit to the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Thursday.

Speaking with reporters after the meeting, the renowned professor of Literature Soyinka said if Buhari had “gone to the site of the first atrocity and said this would not be tolerated and I want this place sanitized by the military”, the state would not have had the succession of killings experienced today.

Soyinka further accused desperate politicians who want to remain in power and continue their atrocities of sponsoring the incessant killings.

He said, “The critical moment by the way has been lost. The critical moment when this act of impunity, this rampage of impunity could have been stopped if the President of this nation had gone to the site of the first atrocity and said this would not be tolerated and I want this place sanitized by the military, it would not have had this succession of killings which have even been given from time to time religious overtones.

“My feeling by the way about the recent killing of the Priests and the congregation is that it was a deliberate diversion. I think this is just a campaign of ethnic cleansing for the purpose of occupation of land, that is one.

“Two, our feelings are that some really desperate politicians are sponsoring these mercenaries in order to create chaos in advance of the next election because they are desperate to stay in power and continue to enjoy immunity.

“I think it’s time for all of us to come together and really probe this tumour and stop pretending that this is simply ringworm when we are actuality dealing with cancer in this society.”