https://thesun.ng/how-to-win-war-against-corruption-soyinka/


The Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Friday listed effective ways to win the war against corruption, which he described as a deadly cankerworm that lays great nations in ruins and puts the people at great disadvantage.

He disclosed this at the 26th annual Wole Soyinka Lectures, organised by the National Association of Seadogs, otherwise known as Pyrates Confraternity, to commemorate the 90th birthday of Soyinka, who alongside six other undergraduates of University of Ibadan founded the group in 1952.

The lecture was held at June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, with the theme: ‘The Baby or the Bathwater: Navigating the Dark Tunnels of Systemic Corruption to Nationhood’.

Soyinka stated that without attitudinal change and readiness of everyone to begin to do the right thing, winning the war against the mounting corruption challenge in the country would remain an impossible task.

The Nobel Laureate, while commenting on the lecture delivered by a former governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, noted: “The particular aspect of this lecture that struck me is corruption. Corruption is not just when you steal public money. It is a cankerworm that eats deep into the fabric of the society from the top to the bottom and corrupts our very nature, our very existence…

“But, ultimately, the solution, short term, immediate and long term, must begin from the inside and this is one of the motives for establishing Pyrates Confraternity 62 years ago.”

Soyinka also disabused the minds of the people on misconceptions about Pyrates Confraternity. He said the registered association is not a bloodthirsty secret cult, but an association founded to push for justice and advance the betterment of the country.

Soyinka alongside the former Secretary-General of Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka Anyawu, later unveiled a book ‘Ship Ahoy’ written to document 60 years history of the confraternity.

In the lecture, Fashola, a former Minister of Works, described Soyinka as a gift to the country, the continent, and the entire civilisation. He stated that corruption, in terms of pecuniary gains, is no doubt stands condemned. He added that the worse form of corruption is that which has displaced highly cherished moral values and has therefore corrupted the people’s ways of life.

I was hoping he would speak about the hunger protests and hardship in the country but never mind

Wole Soyinka the man we always look up to tinubu don destroy many reputations

How Prof guarded his reputation for decades and ended up wasting it on the APC is funny.

I know he will never speak about dis protest or d ills of his cousin administration.....now I see where d northerners learnt bigotry.....once it's ur turn/brothers ...just pretend all is well....once it's another, become an activist

Off Point.

Rhetorical Nonsense!
Wole Soyinka is a typical example of trust nobody until they are really tested.

Mrchippychappy:
I was hoping he would speak about the hunger protests and hardship in the country but never mind

As per your village King or wetin

Man Is 90yo now and u want him to live his last years to impress u as per wetin

So a 90yo man should come and front q protest just to prove a point to u

No one cares about u

Chikel20000:
I know he will never speak about dis protest or d ills of his cousin administration.....now I see where d northerners learnt bigotry.....once it's ur turn/brothers ...just pretend all is well....once it's another, become an activist

xpressionx:
How Prof guarded his reputation for decades and ended up wasting it on the APC is funny.

What reputation was ended??

Same Reputation that made a Moroccan Academy celebrate him last month?

Or the one that made some U.S institutions celebrate him last month?

See, your opinion of him ends in the SE....in the outside world, the world sees him differently and that's all that matters

Skooltynz:
Wole Soyinka the man we always look up to tinubu don destroy many reputations

The rest u are still looking up to, how's it of any benefit to them


I checked the Nobel Prize Hall of Fame again and his name is still there, it will be there forever and you're just one person whose opinion isn't gonna change shii

xpressionx:
How Prof guarded his reputation for decades and ended up wasting it on the APC is funny.

Man really choose to spend his last days destroying his reputation

Kikikiki..someone who couldn't resist ordinary N3million naira under IBB

Soyinka na comedian I swear.

He gave a presentation riddled with Word salad and verbose rantings that mean very little.

He has always been of questionable character.
Just that he messed with Obidients who decided to expose him.

xpressionx:
How Prof guarded his reputation for decades and ended up wasting it on the APC is funny.

You even get time dey read wetin he wan talk.

Mrchippychappy:
Soyinka na comedian I swear.

He gave a presentation riddled with Word salad and verbose rantings that mean very little.

derecho:
He has always been of questionable character.
Just that he messed with Obidients who decided to expose him.

I'm still surprised how he and the media powers managed to sweep his questionable history under the rug.

I still remember his actions when he was in the FRSC

Aye sir

WORD SALAD!

Mrchippychappy:
Soyinka na comedian I swear.

He gave a presentation riddled with Word salad and verbose rantings that mean very little.

He is finding it difficult now because the media has been democratized.
Many people were disinterested in his person..only politicians like Rotimi Amaechi and Tinubu were celebrating him.

Instead of him to face the pots of Taiwan rice Remix Tinubu gave to him, he thought he can use his 1960 girama to gaslight people.

Mrchippychappy:


I'm still surprised how he and the media powers managed to sweep his questionable history under the rug.

I still remember his actions when he was in the FRSC

Oga go and sit down

DevilsEqual:


As per your village King or wetin

Man Is 90yo now and u want him to live his last years to impress u as per wetin

So a 90yo man should come and front q protest just to prove a point to u

No one cares about u

I see....can u guys also cut Obi d same slack too and stop discussing him as if he's Nigerians president?