Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has called on President Bola Tinubu to fulfil his earlier promise to revisit cases of unsolved assassinations and extrajudicial k!llings across Nigeria.
Soyinka made the appeal on Friday at the 28th Wole Soyinka Lecture Series organised by the National Association of Seadogs (Pirates Confraternity) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The event, themed “Reclaiming the Nigerian State through Accountability, Justice and Civic Courage,” also featured the NAS Martyrs’ Day.
He specifically demanded that the Federal Government not overlook the 2022 lynching of Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, by fellow students after she was accused of blasphemy.
He also highlighted the extrajudicial k!lling of 28-year-old Mene Ogidi, who was allegedly shot dead in broad daylight by a police officer in Delta State, insisting that the perpetrators must face justice.
Recalling Tinubu’s statement around the time he assumed office, Soyinka said: “When there was a
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