Interesting! This is What Wole Soyinka Has to Say About Buhari's Fight Against Corruption

Nigeria's Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has spoken out the ongoing fight against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soynka, yesterday threw his substantial weight behind the raging fight against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying corruption has never been so exposed in the annals of Nigeria’s history.

DailyPost reports that Soyinka who said this when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed paid him a courtesy visit in his office at Freedom Park, Lagos, decried high level of illiteracy in the country, which he said ranges from even the teachers to the students and wider society.

According to the literary iconoclast, “the entrenched practice of abandoning fights against corruption half way, will not happen this time, we have not had corruption been exposed on this scale before. We have not had this situation where it is been alleged and increasingly proven that money supposing to be spent on ourselves, nation and neighbourhood was being shared among individuals”.

He however decried the increasing cases of kidnapping and abuse of children in the country.

“We have never had a situation where we were being faced not just with emergency but critical emergency with our children being kidnapped under our noses and we were helpless, soldiers were being sent to the war front to defend our essence and we are not backing them up.

“The fight against corruption in Nigeria is going to be a hard one, there is no question whatsoever that we were not where we are before this administration entered. But we all have to be very careful and I have used this expression again and again that corruption fights back and the hardiest fighters are those who are already within the cesspool of corruption and you can see that in the recent episode which I am not going to talk about. I am going to await certain letters, which I am told to expect, and I hope that the letter writer brings it to my Egba hide out and I will educate him.

“Let’s watch the fight against corruption: it is on two levels, that is directly against corruption and we are going to prepare for the counter-attacks. There is no retreat no matter the libel or libellous garbage from any part of this country.”

He also regretted ongoing calls by the Rivers State government on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to go after him for his alleged receipt of proceeds of corruption from ex-Governor of Rivers State Mr. Chibuike Amaechi.