Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to hearken to the agitations of Niger Delta militant groups, who have had to resort to insurgency and bombing of oil pipeline in recent months.
Soyinka made the call while addressing journalists at the launch of Study Abroad in Lebanon (SAIL) initiative in Lagos on yesterday.

The elder statesman, who said he was recently contacted to play an interventionist role in the crisis rocking the oil-producing region, appealed to Buhari to show more commitment that would bring about lasting solution.
“I wish to make an appeal to government to respond to the outrage of the militant groups. That was a request being made by some of the groups, who got me into this interventionist role in the first place. At the moment, they feel the government of President Buhari is not seriously responding to their outrage. And I wish to personally appeal to the government to positively respond and lets us see where it ends us,” Soyinka said.
The Nobel Laureate was however quick to debunk the insinuation that he was actually working with some international organizations to get the crisis resolved, insisting that so far, he has been acting in his capacity as an individual interventionist.

searchiing4love:
Never negotiate with terrorists. Brutal force is the only language they understand. It will deter other groups from springing up. Just like the military force applied against the biafran terrorists in the south east, the economic terrorists called militants should also be wiped out

Bitterleafsoup:
The country is better because of it?

searchiing4love:



Yes the country is free from threats and hatred ever since the government crushed the Biafran terrorists and locked up Nnamdi kanu their chief terrorist

Bitterleafsoup:
The country is better because of it?
Your retired general is squeezing the freak out of the economy and you still have mind for bigoted rubbish?

Bitterleafsoup:
But are we not talking about Delta Militants as in the present tense
Boko Harem is your people right?
Or maybe your a herdsman or Libyan ,Ugandian Undercover Herdsman

Izonpikin:
that guy is out of touch with reality...I believe he is hungry and still typing that shiiiitttt....

searchiing4love:



Yes the country is free from threats and hatred ever since the government crushed the Biafran terrorists and locked up Nnamdi kanu their chief terrorist

datopaper:
President Buhari talked to militants to resolve this matter, once and for all. Militants should also know, Nigeria is not farmland.

Bitterleafsoup:
My Dear it is baffling! These miscreants must be like Chadans or operatives, the country has turned completely upside down and they are still beating a dead chicken.

Izonpikin:
the FG will forever have no choice but to negotiate with the Niger delta and avengers or who ever....The longer throat for oil and our oil mono economy will always bring us back to negotiations....


Only a blind fool will argue otherwise...

Legitbaba:
No o body dey beg am oh....if he is not ready for dialogue...he should buy more war planes and come down south....

No one, I mean no one can beat us in our land..... unless night and day ceases to exist

Funlordjnr:



Where were you when they sent some of your money grabbing naija delta criminal militants to hades via the odi route in bayelsa?



Keep quiet and stop beating your cabin chest unnecessarily and pray for a solution through dialogue! If the nigerian army decides to descend on your paltry militants the collateral damage may send you and your family to cameroon!




No rag tag group of self serving drunkards can fight a determined government and win! Now run along go and have breakfast so that your mum does not complain about you wasting her chow!

HtwoOw:
Baba Soyinka

I respect you and your wisdom , i think Operation Alligator's Open teeth is better than Dialogue , especially because some goats here believe their creek is inpenetrable

Although they cheer the terrorists less now , thanks to the operations in Ogun and Ondo


We should take their war to them , maybe we won't hear marginalization or any new group forming kingkong in the next 30 years

QuotaSystem:
With all due respect to the personality of Professor Soyinka, I think the government has been patient enough.

The doubts must be cleared in the minds of those ogogoro soaked terrorists and their kindergarten supporters about the military's resolve and capacity to effectively stop the criminality in the delta.

All these kids grandstanding on social media don't realize the harm they're putting their parents in, the same people that were screaming out of fear just yesterday because of ordinary rehearsals by the the amphibian wing of the armed forces.

Anyway we have reached the end of the long rope and at this point any further pussyfooting will only embolden the senseless militants and their suckling supporters the more to continue their sabotage.

QuotaSystem:
With all due respect to the personality of Professor Soyinka, I think the government has been patient enough.

The doubts must be cleared in the minds of those ogogoro soaked terrorists and their kindergarten supporters about the military's resolve and capacity to effectively stop the criminality in the delta.

All these kids grandstanding on social media don't realize the harm they're putting their parents in, the same people that were screaming out of fear just yesterday because of ordinary rehearsals by the the amphibian wing of the armed forces.

Anyway we have reached the end of the long rope and at this point any further pussyfooting will only embolden the senseless militants and their suckling supporters the more to continue their sabotage.

omenka:
My question remains; why have the terrorists suddenly become inclined to dialogue?? Didn't they say they could continue blowing things up until not a single drop of crude is exported from the region?? Didn't they swear to keep up their campaign until the economy is completely grounded?? Didn't they swear to tear down the walls of this building until Niger Delta Republic is granted them??

If my intuition serves me right, I'd wager the FG has landed a big prize in her military campaign and the cowards are jittery over the consequences of keeping up their shenanigans- shiit's most likely about to blow up in their faces.

Their propaganda appears to have lost a whole lot of traction with the revelations made by the breakaway faction and the arrest of some of their members (whose membership they of course denied), but I haven't the slightest doubt in my mind the captives must have been singing more than canaries in detention. Moreso, they've lost a lot of domestic support as it is becoming all too obvious who the primary victims of their idiotic activities are- they very people they claim to be "fighting for".

If the government decides to dialogue with them, fine, but the question remains- how many such groups would the government dialogue with today and in future

There is an old adage that says for peace, be prepared for war. First world countries have the kind of military capabilities they do not because they desire to go to war with anyone but because they understand the essence of having such structures on ground- it is the best deterrent to trouble makers both within and outside the country. As long as we don't upgrade our security armament to meet best global standard, this vicious circle of negotiating with one ragtag group of miscreants after another would go on forever!

Izonpikin:
the government has no choice but to be patient forever. ...The FG wants oil abi....they've already bench marked oil price for the 2017 budget not so...They must be patient. ...either they are or they leave the oil...which of course they can't. ...

Nonsense....