Why ban IPoB, leave Miyetti Allah? Soyinka asks FG
Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has questioned the Federal Government’s handling of the farmer-herder crisis. Speaking exclusively in Channels Television, the literary icon wondered why the government was yet to ban the cattle group, Miyetti Allah, while it had proscribed the Indigenous People of Biafra, a group seeking the secession of the South-East from Nigeria. He said Nigeria must always put the country’s history in perspective to understand security challenges. “My temperament does not accept that anyone should chase me out of my God-given earth. So, it’s a temperamental thing as well,” Soyinka said. “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, K...