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Nigeria: Prof. Wole Soyinka Blasts President Buhari for Prisoner Pardons

Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday censured President Muhammadu Buhari for granting a presidential pardon to former governors of Plateau and Taraba states, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame respectively

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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday censured President Muhammadu Buhari for granting a presidential pardon to former governors of Plateau and Taraba states, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame respectively, who was jailed for stealing billions of naira, describing the President’s action as rotten egg squashed against Nigerian faces, which they shall not forget or wipe off in a hurry.

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President Buhari had last Thursday granted pardon, under the prerogative of mercy, to Dariye and Nyame, who were serving various prison terms.

Soyinka, in a statement yesterday, titled: ‘A Putrid Presidential Easter Egg,’ said he shared in the bombshell dropped on Easter against the President by Rev. Matthew Kukah.

He said he was impelled, however, not to miss an opportunity to add his own Easter drop to the “overflowing vessel of pietistic sentiments, if only to reassure Christians – and also Muslims in turn – that even we, non-believers, do partake of that same ethical communion to which most humanities aspire.

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“Also, your Easter sermon opens up yet again those sluices of juridical hypocrisy to which we dare not cease to draw attention. Such, in the immediate, remains the plight of two young men – Mubarak Bala and the musician Yahaya Sharif – one serving a sentence of 25 years, the other actually sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.

“That word ‘blasphemy’ comes into its authentic mode, in my view, whenever anyone violates a solemn oath of office. Its penitentially becomes even redoubled when such violators are pampered with the prerogative of mercy.

“Permit me to call special attention to the following from your (Kukah) sermon: ‘Religious leaders…. must face the reality that here in Nigeria and elsewhere around the world, millions of people are leaving Christianity and Islam. While we are busy building walls of division with the blocks of prejudice, our members are becoming atheists, but we prefer to pretend that we do not see this. We cannot pretend not to hear the footsteps of our faithful marching away into atheism and secularism. No threats can stop this, but dialogue can open our hearts.”

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“No pardon has been extended in the direction of endangered, youthful integrity. Of course, it is easy to track the trajectory of events. Nettled by increasingly scabrous comments, such as those of his predecessor in office, Olusegun Obasanjo, who declared that this incumbent has run out of ideas, that he has nothing left to offer the nation, Muhammadu Buhari decided to embark on the Easter train and donate an Easter egg of truly presidential proportions to his subjects,” he said.

According to Soyinka, coming from a leader who had placed all his eggs in one basket, labeled anti-corruption, “this is one egg squashed against Nigerian faces that they shall not forget – or wipe off – in a hurry. It evokes the legend of Pandora’s box whose contents are alleged to constitute all the ills that plague the world.

“You will forgive, though disagree with me, I know, for clambering onto the Easter wagon myself, to echo the words of the One whose passage through the world the Easter season commemorates: “It is finished!” he concluded.

 

Source: Guardian NG

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