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Soyinka’s Country Home Raided By Herdsmen?

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BEVERLY HILLS, February 10, (THEWILL) – Suspected herdsmen early this morning reportedly invaded the country home of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The herdsmen reportedly arrived Soyinka’s home at Ijegba Forest, Abeokuta in the wee hours but the quick intervention of the police saved the day.

The Nobel Laureate himself has made no statement.

Soyinka is said to have moved to Lagos following the attack on his home.

When contacted, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ogun Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he could not speak on the matter as he and others were on their way to Soyinka’s house.

However, sources said some arrests were made in connection with the incident.

This is coming a few days after Soyinka told President Buhari to speak out urgently, to stop the herdsmen crisis before it snowballed into a civil war.

In an interview with BBC Pidgin, Soyinka had said the herdsmen crisis was already a war now “right on our door steps.”

He said it was expectedly triggering some kind of mobilisation and stressed the urgent need for resolution.

“If we continue to wait for the resolution to be centrally handled, we are all going to become, if not already, slaves in our land,” he said.

Soyinka, who said the situation was simply intolerable and unacceptable, added that he had made Governor Dapo Abiodun to understand what was going on.

“We are here not just to live, but live in dignity. Right now our dignity is being rubbished,” he said.

Soyinka who lives in Abeokuta inside a forest said his own space had been violated by the herdsmen.

“My forest has been taken over. It’s been shrinking, shrinking. My normal hunting rounds have been shrinking, shrinking.”

He said he had been warned by his family not to venture into the forest again for any game hunting.

Soyinka said Buhari’s silence amid the atrocities committed by the herdsmen, meant complicity with their crimes.

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