Nigerian Playwright, Professor Wole Soyinka says he perceives trouble if the truth bordering on the rearrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, is revealed.

In an interview with professor Soyinka, aired on BBC News.

He said, “It’s not for me to tell the president to prepare itself because it’s going to be “huge sqwark” when the truth about how Kanu was arrested comes out. People are alleging this; or that is one phase, whether Nigeria has acted outside international law.

“The second issue, however, has to do with Kanu’s conduct outside the nation. There’s been a level of hate rhetoric which has been unfortunate, from Kanu. Hate rhetoric has been an issue that can only be judged by the law of any nation.

“Was it right to have been kidnapped? You can say intercepted as much as you want, but I think Kanu was kidnapped. That is wrong internationally and morally.

“The government cannot wash itself clean on what seems to be a kind of comparative energy in pursuing the destabilized forces in the nation.”

Additionally, Soyinka went down memory lane, when Buhari ignored his suggestion to evict illegal occupant within 48 hours, after defaulting persons would be face the law, which he recently said he would respond to them in the language they would understand. He noted that that he would have responded to this issue of insurgency from the inception.

“Their leadership, the Miyetti Allah should have been arrested years ago, long before IPOB was declared a ‘terrorist group,'” he said.

Ijeoma Njoku reporting, Obinwannem News | July 6, 2021