The Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has reacted to the incessant abduction of students in various boarding schools across Nigeria.
Mr Soyinka said the repeated attack on schools by terrorists is fast making the country close to the stage of accepting the unacceptable culture.
The Professor of Comparative Literature made this comment during an award lecture and public presentation of his latest book, ‘Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth’, in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Saturday.
The event was organised by the Ogun state chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), in collaboration with the Abeokuta Club.
PREMIUM TIMES reported the timeline of Nigeria’s alarming trend of mass abduction of school children
The activities are carried out by different bands of outlaws in the North-west, North-central and North-east.
Reacting to the menace, Mr Soyinka said states may need to shut down some of their activities in solidarity with affected states where kidnapping of children are rampant.
“The abductions of our children, when will it end; how will it end? I don’t think any one of us can tell. But it is important that we continue to stress and to remind ourselves that, not only are these abnormal times, but it seems to be, to me anyway, times of the shirking of responsibility in very key areas,” Mr Soyinka was quoted by TheCable.
He repeated his position that those at the helm of affairs of the nation have failed the populace.
Credit: premiumtimesng.com
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