It is also significant that Prof. Wole Soyinka did not tell us what he would have done if he were in Gen. Buhari’s shoes at the time. There was this urgency to stem the tide of gross indiscipline on all fronts that made the nation a laughing stock. I also find it hard to believe that Prof. Wole Soyinka chose to ignore the roles of civilians who were always serving in every shade of government who added the negative image to various administrations with their notorious activities. It is also shocking that he chose to ignore the realities of the working of the military administration under the leadership of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. The decisions were jointly made at the Supreme Military Council with many civilians as advisers at federal and state levels. He also forgot or he deliberately chose to ignore the fact that the laws that were termed draconian, though necessary at the time, were all drafted by civilians who were lawyers some of whom are Senior Advocates of Nigeria today with inputs from civilian directors and heads of MDAs. There was no time we really ran a pure military government in Nigeria. Civilians ran the business as Permanent Secretaries and advisers and offered their services as drafts men to the soldiers. It is interesting – quite interesting – that Prof. Wole Soyinka who believes everything military was evil accepted to serve in the most corrupt of all the military regimes in Nigeria headed by Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. He was the pioneer Chairman of the Federal Road Safety Commission. I had actually thought that a man of principle should never have accepted to serve under such a government. Could that be the reason he was silent at the atrocities of his good friend and benefactor, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida? I can go on and on. The father of secret cults on Nigerian campuses goofed in so many ways in that cheap essay written in fine English. It is so unfortunate that he succeeded in convincing anyone at all who also run with unfounded rumors just because a revered Professor of Letters uttered them.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 07:22:38 +0000
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