It’s shameful 219 Chibok schoolgirls not rescued yet – Soyinka tells Buhari

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka chose the occasion of the commissioning of a mega school named after him  in the state of Osun  to lash out Monday at President Muhammadu  Buhari and his team over the non-rescue of 219  Chibok schoolgirls, almost six months since Buhari’s inauguration.

“It is a shame that the nation cannot account for over 200 girls in Chibok. I sympathise with the religious policy of governments in school; children must not be brought up feeling that religion inhibits knowledge.



“In schools, we need not distinguish our children, the fatalistic religious holiness and the holier-than-thou attitude must be reduced among our pupils, ” he said.

Professor Soyinka, ever frank, also said the school was an an “emphatic rejection of what Boko Haram insurgents preach”.