NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has berated the Federal Government and the Department of State Security (DSS) over continued detention of the convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore and disobedience of court orders to release him.

In a statement issued on Thursday, Soyinka said the Federal Government and its security agencies would have to detain half of the nation’s population for detaining Sowore based on his call for revolution in the country.

According to the social critic who titled his statement, “Between thuggery and state disobedience,” the “wish for drastic transformation of this nation is staple discourse.”

“Is Sowore Myetti Allah? As for those agencies that actually think to inhibit social revolution by fastening on the alarmist association of the word ‘revolution’, half the citizens of this nation should be in permanent detention,” he said.

“From pulpit to minaret, from clinic to fish market, from student club to motor park, the wish for drastic transformation of this nation is staple discourse.”

He said the discourse should start with the judiciary whose decisions, the literary icon said, affect both society and individuals with such finality, for good or ill.

Citing similar disobedience of court orders by previous administrations since return of democracy in 1999, Soyinka said Nigeria has continued to undergo the chagrin of having the rug pulled from under her feet while waiting on the long queue for judicial redress against the strong-arm culture of the state, as well as unlisted power interests.

“ For instance, Lagos state, the former capital, and still the acknowledged commercial capital of the nation, once found herself denied statutory allocation for several years, despite repeated court declarations that such withholding by the central government was unconstitutional and should be remedied forthwith,” he recalled.

“That president took sadistic pleasure in simply playing deaf. It took his successor to end the abuse and restore the full entitlements of that state, disobedience that went beyond mere churlishness but affected the development and welfare of the indigenes of that state.

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those fools forget they will leave office one day

Soyinka is a coward let him call a protest like he used to always do during GEJs reign

Is Soyinka acting surprised or what I am not understanding .

We are waiting
After eight years they should explain to us what they gained in supporting buhari to power.

cyberguy72:
Soyinka is a coward let him call a protest like he used to always do during GEJs reign

This is the same Soyinka that spent 2 years in jail just because he supported Biafra, yet you have the temerity to call him a coward. He has played his part. He is Eighty Six years ago, what role have you or your grand father played?

Jakpon:
This is the same Soyinka that spent 2 years in jail just because he supported Biafra, yet you have the temerity to call him a coward. He has played his part. He is Eighty Six years ago, what role have you or your grand father played?

so anybody that criticise soyinka or even Buhari is now igbo. Yorubas are not serious

Danzakidakura:
so anybody that criticise soyinka or even Buhari is now igbo. Yorubas are not serious

You are Igbo! Stop denying ur tribe

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

J.K. Rowling

Let's wait and see how this plays out

cyberguy72:
Soyinka is a coward let him call a protest like he used to always do during GEJs reign

And what is ur father doing? At least Soyinka is speaking up

Honor10:


You are Igbo! Stop denying ur tribe

i your mothers lover. I Bleep her through the ass.

Honor10:


And what is ur father doing? At least Soyinka is speaking up

What about that slowpoke of a father you have ,i bet he is even worse than Soyinka.

cyberguy72:
Soyinka is a coward let him call a protest like he used to always do during GEJs reign

you don't have to display your stupidity everywhere... Just be serious for once

CalciumB3:
you don't have to display your stupidity everywhere... Just be serious for once

Your full generation are stupid.Son of bastard

Danzakidakura:
i your mothers lover. I Bleep her through the ass.

Demented pervert

Honor10:


And what is ur father doing? At least Soyinka is speaking up

Dont worry my Father would visit u dis nite from his grave to discuss further with u