Declare Security Emergency Now In South- West, Soyinka Tells FG
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has called on the Federal Government to declare security emergency in the Southwest to tackle the rising wave of insecurity in the region.
The literary icon who expressed concerns over the spate of insecurity in the region said there was the need for urgent action to be taken by stakeholders to address the issue of insecurity.
According to him, “As regard the insecurity in the South-West, there is an emergency. There should be a declaration of security emergency throughout the land and measures taken accordingly.
“There are many directions of security lapses, you know it here, especially in Ondo State, it is a calamity throughout the whole nation. There is an emergency.”
Also speaking, the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu noted that Nigerians were being encouraged and motivated by Soyinka’s writings and activities over the several decades of his engaging years.
The governor said, “This is because they have elevated in our minds, the art of partisan living, as the biggest ideal of social reclamation.
“Indeed, his life at every station has taught us that to make a meaning of life, a man must set forth at dawn and immerse himself at the epicenter of beliefs, struggles and activities which seek to reclaim society and help it attain its spontaneous fullness of being.”
