Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka said Friday that trying to end a
deadly insurgency by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram through
dialogue would amount to “abysmal appeasement.”
Soyinka spoke just as the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, again
yesterday, asked the Presidency and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP
to find a way of tackling rising terrorism being visited on the land by
the Boko Haram sect and stop linking the former Head of State, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, with it.
CPC maintained that Boko Haram was a creation of the ruling PDP.
President Goodluck Jonathan earlier this year encouraged the
Islamists, blamed for hundreds of deaths since 2009, to publicly state
their demands, and his government has confirmed that “back-channel”
talks with the group are ongoing.“When I say, ‘don’t talk to murderers,’
that is exactly what I mean,” Soyinka told foreign media at an
international conference in Lagos.“Don’t talk to mass murderers.

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