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Anambra: See What Soyinka Said About The Killing Of Harira Jubril, Four Children

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Prof Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate, has called the assassination of a pregnant lady and her four children in Anambra State by unidentified gunmen as “horrific.”

Gunmen assassinated Harira Jubril and her children in Isulo village in the South-East state two weeks ago, according to Anaedoonline.ng.

Soyinka expressed concern over the incident, saying that the gunmen have continued to terrorize the people of Anambra and other Nigerians in the South East.

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He noted that any heinous conduct aimed at bringing the country down or inciting ethnic strife should be denounced by all Nigerians.

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In a statement posted on Saturday, Soyinka stated, “Drawing the red line against infanticide.”

He said: “The anticipated question surfaced again and again: What kind of mind is capable of such bestiality? And yet it happens, again and again. We know who these killers are, they live among us.

“Sometimes I undergo the feeling that I actually know them, that I have encountered them, have heard them and perhaps even read them.

“And we know that unless they are pre-emptively denounced and exposed, they will strike and strike again. Their actions reduce us all, tarnish us, and question our humanity.

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“At the Abuja event (one-year remembrance of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru), exactly a week ago, I proposed the need to develop the collective sense of a Lowest Common Denominator in the seizure of our humanity.

“Any act that attempts to drag us below, or remove that rung of the human ladder should be answered by a total community shutdown– or other equivalence- of its own accord until that rung is fully reclaimed.

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“The Anambra infanticidal orgy is one such. Deborah Samuel’s mob immolation was another. Response to such abominations transcends the mandatory functions of security agencies.”

 

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