Victims of killings do not need Buhari’s sympathy – Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Nobel Prize winner, Professor Wole Soyinka has criticised those calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to visit affected areas of mass killings by herdsmen across the country.
Soyinka said he gets impatient when he hears people say the president has failed to go and sympathise with people of troubled communities.
He said, “I get impatient when I hear things like Buhari has failed to go and sympathise with the people of Benue, with the people of Nassarawa, with the people of Dapchi or wherever.
“Who needs sympathy? Is it sympathy that will reorder their broken lives? Is sympathy the issue? We are speaking here of one commodity that is fundamentally human deserving, justice.”
Soyinka said he’d rather Buhari address people’s security needs and punish the perpetrators, than having baseless visits to the affected areas.
“There should an internal measure to avoid repeat. We are speaking here of a president that will respond with massive action and not showing up at the arena of human desecration to shed any unjust tears, but give orders that the bloodthirsty terrorists are brought to book,” he said.
