Abduction of the nation’s Children in the President’s home terrain is a slap across his face – Wole Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has reacted to the kidnap of schoolboys from Government Secondary School in Kankara community of Katsina State.

In a statement he titled “INFRADIG–A presidential comeuppance”, the playwright explained that the refusal of the president to appear before the house of assembly proves his theory that President Buhari is not in charge adding that the “abduction of the nation’s children” in his home terrain is “a slap across his face ”

He wrote; “That, to come to the present, constituted Buhari’s response to the National Assembly’s invitation to drop in for a chat. He did not consider it infradig at the beginning. He responded to the polite invitation to rub minds urgently over a people’s security anxieties as one who still struggled to preserve the tattered remains of his ‘Born-Again’ democratic camouflage.

“However, his reversal of consent raised yet again the frightening situation report I have fervently posed: Buhari is not in charge. Whoever is, that segment of the cabalistic control obviously cornered him on the way to the lawmakers’ chambers and urged: Don’t! Their invitation is infradig! He succumbed.

“Beneath the dignity of a Commander-in-Chief! Well. The opportunistic homicidal respondents -Bandits/Boko Haram or whoever – thereupon picked up the gauntlet and provided a response in their own language: abduction once again of the nation’s children. They handed him a slap across the face, on his home terrain, taunting: See if that is more suited to your dignity.”