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OMG: RUGA WILL EXPLODE NIGERIA - WOLE SOYINKA WARNS BUHARI
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Afnews Editor
Jul 02, 2019
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has opposed the federal
government's proposal to establish Ruga settlements across the nation for
herdsmen.
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Speaking in Lagos on Tuesday at the launch of United
Nations' Solutions 17 SDG programme, Soyinka berated the federal government for
the idea, which he said can cause Nigeria to explode.
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According to him: "Ruga is going to be an explosion if not
handled with care. But why do we not take our policies from good models? This
is not the way people and countries deal with issues of cattle.
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"I travel everywhere. It has to be handled in a way that is
logical, comprehensible to the environment. When a cattle walks up to the
window of my house in Abeokuta, a house which is located in a residential area,
then there's a problem.
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"When cattle goes to Ijebu Ode and eat up their plant
seedlings and so on and you expect people to be quiet?ÔÇØ
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He stated the handling of the herdsmen issue by President
Muhammadu Buhari was enough to make him lose re-election.
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"President Buhari deserved to have lost the last election
for the lackadaisical attitude he took to the issue of cattle rearing in the
country.
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"People have been killed in hundreds just because of the
failure of leadership at a critical time. And the cattle herders have been
given a sense of impunity.
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"hey kill without any compunction, they drive away the
farmers who have been contributing to the food solutions in the country, the
cattle eat their crops and then you come up with Ruga.
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"I think that there is going to be trouble in this country
if this Ruga thing is not handled imaginatively and with humanity as a
priority.
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"Any country where cattle takes priority over human life is
definitely at an elementary stage,ÔÇØ he said.
