Fight Against Corruption ’ ll Be A Tough One – Wole Soyinka

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Fight Against Corruption ’ ll Be A Tough One – Wole Soyinka

Professor Wole Soyinka yesterday, 9th January,
2016 showed his support for and confidence in
the Buhari-led administration and their war
against corruption in the country, he also said
“the fight is going to be a hard one”.


The Nobel Laureate said all this when he
received the Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in his office at
Freedom Park, Lagos Island.


“We have never had a situation where we were
faced not just by emergency but critical
emergency with our children being kidnapped
under our noses and we were helpless, soldiers
were being sent to the war front to defend our
essence and we were not backing them up.


The fight against corruption in Nigeria is going
to be a hard one.

There is no question
whatsoever that we are not where we were
before this administration entered. But we all
have to be very careful and I have used this
expression again and again that corruption
fights back and the ardent fighters are those
who are already within the cesspool of
corruption and you can see that in the recent
episode which I am not going to talk about, I
am going to await a certain letter, which I am
told to expect and I hope that the letter writer
brings it to my Egba hideout and I will educate
him.


Let’s watch the fight against corruption . It is on
two levels: one directly against corruption and
counter attacks which we are. There is no
retreat no matter the libel or libelous garbage
from any part of this country” he said.


Professor Soyinka also ceased the opportunity
to shed more light on the news of the
immediate past Governor of Rivers State and
current minister of transportation, Rotimi
Amechi allegedly spending N82 million to host
him to a birthday dinner. He described the
allegation as “insulting, disrespectful and
highest desperation”