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Prof. Wole Soyinka reacts to Gov. Wike's allegations

Prof. Wole Soyinka has responded to the
accusations leveled by the Rivers State
government against the former administration
headed by Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to the effect that
the former governor spent N82 million on a
dinner in honour of the Nobel Laureate.
The Rivers state government alleged that the
N82million Dinner for Professor Wole Soyinka
was sponsored with borrowed funds by the
former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.
In his response which will leave you disappointed
if you expect Prof. Soyinka to confirm or deny
the allegations. Prof. Soyinka said;
“Since then however, I have learnt of some
unsavory statements by the insecure
incumbent of the Rivers State government
Lodge,” he said, adding that they included a
loose invitation to anti-crime agencies to
investigate the potential crime of being
honoured through any occasion.”
“The unprecedented call by this governor is
prescient of a warning I recounted in my
recent pamphlet publication THE REPUBLIC
OF LIARS, and was taken from my address to
an anti-corruption global conference that
took place in Tunisia two years ago,”
“Those words were: CORRUPTION STRIKES
BACK. In this ongoing instance, that
expression translates most vividly as ‘Those
who are neck deep in the sewage of
corruption ensure that they splatter sewage
in all possible and improbable directions.’”
“I do however fully support the Wikeleaks call
for multi-directional probes,”
“I recommend further that he involve the
services of INTERPOL to guarantee its
extension to all international organisations
and governments to whom I owe uncountable
events of recognition – including birthday
luncheons, dinners, cultural receptions and
events of real, fictitious, or simply
opportunistic flavoring – to which I have
submitted myself.”
Prof. Soyinka expressed regret about what he
called the present level of abominable
distractions.
“It is one that even I did not envisage when I
warned – CORRUPTION STRIKES BACK!” he
said.
Throwing the matter over to “EFCC and
company,” and reminding them that they all
know where he lives, he concluded, “Whether
it brings honour or dishonour to the nation is
another matter – I am saddened, but
indifferent.”