Following Wole Soyinka’s widely published opinion editorial which centers around the present trend of insurgency in the country especially as regards allegations by Australian Stephen Davis that former Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff amongst others were responsible for the activities of insurgent sect Boko Haram, the former governor has replied the Nobel laureate.
Inuwa Bala, a former commissioner of information and home affairs who served under Sheriff when he was governor of Borno issued a statement on behalf of the former govero in which he said Soyinka was a cultist and only “entertaining Nigerians with his English”. Bala also dared the Nobel Laurent to name the alleged Central Bank financier of Boko Haram.
“As the ‘cultist’ we know him (Soyinka) to be, being the founder of a confraternity for which the world is still waiting for answers from him, he is the least morally qualified to speak on the alleged involvement of any Nigerian in whatever crime,” Bala said.
“We challenge him to name this person he says he knows as a sponsor of Boko Haram in the Central Bank, if he is as patriotic as he claims to be. We also challenge him to prove to Nigerians that he is not the cultist we have always known him to be.
“No security agency anywhere or an individual who claims to have investigated this matter independently can dictate to Nigerians or our security personnel what to do about this Boko Haram menace. Therefore, this needless diversion is unwelcome,” he concluded.
