Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has reacted to the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country saying the government is only “buying time” and “passing blame.”
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has reacted to the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country, saying the government is only “buying time” and “passing blame.”
He said this in a statement released on December 30, 2017, and which was made available to reporters in Lagos.
He entitled the statement: Blame Passing, Social Media Automated Mumus- The New Year Gift to a Nation.
Soyinka cited a Daily Times “news clipping from June, 1977”, where a then President “General Buhari”, who was then Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources, was quoted to have said, “Fuel crisis may be over next year.”
Speaking about this, he said: “It captures the unenviable enigma that is the Nigerian nation.”
Same old, same old
He added that: “When many of us are blissfully departed, an updated rendition of this same clipping- with a change of cast here and there- will undoubtedly be reproduced in the media, with the same alibis, the same in-built panacea of blame passing.”
By Obalolu Davies.
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