Balarabe is a blunder says Wole Soyinka

Youths, local hunters, community leaders and other concerned groups within the South-West region on Tuesday trooped call at the support of the establishment of the safety Network code-named Operation AMOTEKUN. The federal government through the CJN has said the creation of the “security task force code-named Amotekun” is against the law

The peaceful rally by the youths follows Federal Government’s declaration that the operation is against the law and “the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) has established the military, Navy, and Airforce, including the Police and other numerous paramilitary organisations for the aim of the safety defence of Nigeria”

Former governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa said “is sadly, but I hope not tragically wrong. I invoke the tragic dimension here because the making of tragedy, especially for nations, often begins when fears are mistaken or promoted as facts and governments either by themselves or together with interest groups are enticed by fears into embarking on precipitate, irrational, and irreversible acts.

“Such acts turn out, in the end, to be based on nothing but fears, sometimes generated by guilt over past injustices, such as inequitable dealing. That is the basis of tragedy, towards which nations are propelled by a partial or wrongful reading of socio-political realities and – history.

Balarabe in an interview attributed to him and published by a national newspaper over the weekend urged the Federal Government not to allow the establishment of Amotekun. According to him, the security outfit was a ploy to secure Yoruba land and a prelude to the declaration of Oduduwa Republic.

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, respond to the comment made by the former governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa that the Western Nigeria security task force code-named AMOTEKUN would lead to the declaration of Oduduwa Republic.

Soyinka said Balarabe is sadly wrong and he wished Nigeria to avoid such blunder. He added that blunders like that of Balarabe are the basis for tragedy in a nation.

The security task force was recently launched by the six South-West governors with the aim of tackling kidnapping, banditry and other crimes in the region.