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OSOGBO— Nobel Laureate, Professor
Wole Soyinka, yesterday in Osogbo, declared that the country was in need of
competent leaders to confront, among others, the security challenges facing the
country...
He said the security challenges
facing the country could not be solved by prayers, but by leaders with capacity
to deal with the situation without partisanship.
Soyinka suggested that learning from
the history of nations that had faced similar situations could help Nigeria
survive her present security challenges.
Soyinka, who was a keynote speaker
at a colloquium with the theme Fundamental Imperatives of Cohabitation, Faith
and Secularism, organised by Centre for Black Culture and International
Understanding, CBCIU, Osogbo, called for a frank talk among stakeholders in the
affairs of the country to end the spate of bombings.
According to Soyinka, who said he
received with shock the news of Nyanya Motor Park bombing, authorities
concerned must arrest the situation.
Debunking a newspaper report, which
quoted him as saying the nation’s security challenges could be resolved through
prayers, Soyinka posited that Boko Haram insurgency should not be mistaken for
a religious war, insisting that prayers alone could not end the crises.
He said: ”I have never said prayer
can help resolve the security challenges facing Nigeria.
“I believe the situation must be
tackled without partisanship and all these uninformed comments cannot help the
situation.
“We should wake up to the reality.
Nigeria is in war and only competence can solve the problem, not prayers.”
At the event, Governor Rauf
Aregbesola of Osun State said the only way to respect God was by showing
respect to human beings, emphasising the need for people to accommodate others’
religions.
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