Lagos – Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday expressed
confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would fight
corruption conclusively.
Soyinka said this when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, visited him at his home in Lagos.
He said that the level of exposure concerning corruption under the
Buhari administration showed that government was really tackling the
vice.
According to him, the country had never had corruption exposed at this scale before.
“We have not had a case where it had been alleged and increasingly
proven that money supposed to be spent on defending ourselves, our
nation, our neighbourhood, has been shared among individuals.
“We never had experience where we were in a state of critical emergency where children are being kidnapped under our noses.
“Never had there been in a situation where we are helpless and our
soldiers are sent to the front to defend our very existence and we are
not backing them up with conduct that shows integrity and commitment.
“Because of these reasons, corruption is really desperate and has
chosen to fight back, but I am confident that corruption will be
resolved,’’ Soyinka said.
He advised the Federal Government not to relent in its effort at
bringing all those who looted the nation’s treasury to justice, adding
that it should not be cowed by deliberate attempts to frustrate the
anti-corruption crusade.
He described as “insulting’’, news accusing him of engaging in
corrupt practices, and said that he was ready to face appropriate legal
authority if properly invited.
Soyinka decried the deplorable condition of the National Arts Theatre
in Lagos, and said that a Private-Public-Partnership may be the
solution for the resuscitation of the national monument.
On his part, the minister expressed the government’s resolve to develop the arts industry.
He said that the ministry was currently strategising on how to tap
into the opportunities and potentials in the culture and arts industry
to create jobs for Nigerian youths
Sunday, 10 January 2016
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