Prof. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, has questioned why the Miyetti Allah organization is not included in the federal government of Nigeria’s proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Soyinka contends that the government must pay heed to the inciting remarks made by some Miyetti Allah group leaders and their threats against other country residents.
He made the submission in an interview with Channels Television that was filmed for a Monday broadcast.
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He said that if IPOB could be prohibited for pursuing a separatist plan, the Miyetti Allah livestock organization had to be prohibited as well for its involvement and unguarded remarks in the country’s recurrent farmer-herder disputes.
The literary legend claims that the government must handle the security issues plaguing the nation more strategically.
Soyinka disputed claims attributed to members of the Miyetti Allah organization that he wanted to reenact ethnic invasion of other parts of a sovereign state.
He said; “My temperament does not accept that anyone should chase me out of my God-given earth. So, it’s a temperamental thing as well.
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“The idea that you can unleash terror on me because you want my little patch of territory or you want my soul, that is you want to subjugate me, you want to turn me into a slave. Well, I would sort that out first.
“And then I’ll make up my mind whether I want to leave. So each outrage, unfortunately, has the opposite effect. Whether the outrage is taking place in Benue, in Kaduna, or is taking place in Owo. Or whether it is taking place right here on the (Ogun state) border – we’ve been subjected also to this lunacy, of the subjugation mentality which some minority people hold. And I find it very difficult to accept to be chased out of my own entitled portion of the earth.
“Many people just either do not know history or do not understand the purpose of history. And then there’s a different group also who are very selective about history; they know how to distort or misuse history.
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“Take for instance when the incursion of the Fulani herdsmen began, and the Miyetti Allah. Their spokesman said, I think it was in Borno, we once ruled this place, and we can take back our land anytime we want. I remember that statement; I’ve never forgotten. In the midst of the trauma of these people, somebody comes gloating and then citing selective portions of history. I said this person should be arrested and locked up, who says he wants to repeat his history of conquest – he’s admitting either knowledge, before or after, or support, anyway. Isn’t there anything like hate speech anymore? Why are you proscribing IPOB without proscribing Miyetti Allah?”
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