Sowore: Rein in your wild dogs, Soyinka tells President Buhari
- Professor Wole Soyinka has condemned operatives of the DSS for re-arresting Omoyele Sowore inside a court
- The Nobel Laureate urged President Buhari to intervene in the maltreatment of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest
- Soyinka described operatives of the DSS as wild dogs of disobedience
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) for re-arresting the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, inside an Abuja court.
Soyinka urged President Muhammad Buhari to call the DSS operatives, whom he described as “wild dogs of disobedience” to order.
Soyinka's remarks were contained in a statement he sent to journalists on Friday, December 6 on the rearrest of Sowore.
His words: “It has become imperative and urgent to send this message to President-General Buhari: Rein in your wild dogs of disobedience. And for a start, get a trainer to teach them some basic court manners.”
He continued: “I apologise for underestimating the DSS capacity for the unthinkable. I reiterate the nation’s concern, indeed alarm, about the escalating degradation of the judiciary through multiple means, of which disobedience of court orders is fast becoming the norm.
“May I remind this government that disobedience calls to disobedience, and that disobedience of the orders of the constitutional repository of the moral authority of arbitration – the judiciary – can only lead eventually to a people’s disregard of the authority of other arms of civil society, a state of desperation that is known, recognised and accepted as civil disobedience.
“It is so obvious, state disobedience leads eventually to civil disobedience, piecemeal or through a collective withdrawal of recognition of other structures of authority.
“That way leads to chaos but who set it in motion? As is often the case, the state, unquestionably. Such a state bears full responsibility for the ensuing social condition known as anomie.”
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Meanwhile, a member of the House of Representatives representing Egbeda Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Honourable Akin Alabi, has described the rearrest of Sowore as
“No matter whose side you are on, this cannot be right in any way,” the All Progressives Congress lawmaker wrote on micro-blogging site, Twitter.
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