Wole Soyinka attacks his Frankincense Monster: Meyetti is far worst than IPOB.
If you declared Kanu’s IPOB as Terrorist, how will you categorize Meyetti?” – Soyinka to Buhari. Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has said that the killings perpetrated by suspected herdsmen is worse than the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, led by Nnamdi Kanu, which the government declared a terrorist group. In a statement on Wednesday, Soyinka said he is not ‘aware that IPOB came anywhere close to this homicidal propensity and will to dominance before it was declared a terrorist organization’. “The international community rightly refused to go along with such an absurdity. The conduct of that movement, even at its most extreme, could by no means be reckoned as terrorism. By contrast, how do we categorize Meyetti?” Soyinka wondered in the release why the Federal Government had not given consideration to some of the stakeholders’ recommendations on how to resolve the problem. He recalled that after “a hideous massacre” perpetrated by the herdsmen in 201