How Soyinka assessed Buhari's anti corruption war

Over the weekend, literary icon and Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka gave his assessment of President Buhari's fight against corruption.

While playing host to Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, he said that the war against corruption would be a difficult one but that he was certain that Buhari would fight it to a logical conclusion.

Soyinka expressed confidence that the usual practice of abandoning the war against corruption midway would not happen this time.

“We have never had a situation where we were faced not just by emergency but critical emergency with our children being kidnapped under our noses and we were helpless, soldiers were being sent to the war front to defend our essence and we were not backing them up.

“The fight against corruption in Nigeria is going to be a hard one. There is no question whatsoever that we are not where we were before this administration entered. But we all have to be very careful and I have used this expression again and again that corruption fights back and the ardent fighters are those who are already within the cesspool of corruption and you can see that in the recent episode which I am not going to talk about, I am going to await a certain letter which I am told to expect and I hope that the letter writer brings it to my Egba hideout and I will educate him.

“Let’s watch the fight against corruption. It is on two levels: one directly against corruption and counter attacks which we are. There is no retreat no matter the libel or libelous garbage from any part of this country,” he said.