"All lives are equal, but a cow’s is more equal than others.”
"In plain language, they have declared war against the nation, and their weapon is an undiluted terror. Why have they been permitted to become a menace to the rest of us?
That is the issue!
"These herdsmen, arrogant and unconscionable, have adopted a scorched-earth policy...
"They freely admitted the killings but justified them by claims that they had lost their cattle to the host community.
It is important to emphasize that none of their spokesmen referred to any government neglect, such as refusal to pay subsidy for their cows or failure to accord them the same facilities that had been extended to cassava or millet farmers. Such are the monstrous beginnings of the culture of impunity. We are reaping, yet again, the consequences of such tolerance of the intolerable. Yes, there indeed the government is culpable, definitely guilty of “looking the other way”.
Indeed, it must be held complicit.
"The sustained, killing monologue of the herdsmen is what is at issue. It must be curbed, decisively and without further evasiveness."
Read the full text of Wole Soyinka's statement here -
https://lnkd.in/dthUGFN
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