personal against the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele
Fayose, calling him a 'tout'.
Soyinka was reacting to what he described as Fayose's
attack on judges shortly before his swearing-in as the
governor of the state.
He also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop
impunity in the country especially by the nation's security
operatives.
The Nobel Laureate was the keynote speaker, Wednesday, at
the 10th anniversary of the annual Wole Soyinka Award for
Investigative Reporting by the Wole Soyinka Centre for
Investigative Journalism
According to Soyinka, the Nigeria Military in particular is in
the habit of assaulting and harassing members of the public.
He said that the spate of the assault does not depict the
country as a democratic country.
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Soyinka insisted that the report of the enquiry into the
recent attack on the BRT buses by soldiers in Lagos must be
made public, saying the claim by the authorities that the
matter had been dealt with militarily was not tenable.
He also called on government to ensure that the nation's
laws are respected, including the order of the courts. He
challenged security operatives not to take laws into their
own hands.
He said: "There must be an end to unlawful detention. If the
court has granted someone a bail, it must be honoured, I
don't care what the offence is.
"Anybody or institution that does this can only be compared
to that tout in Ekiti. That Fayose, he is a tout. He descended
on the judges and attacked them openly without any
consequence."
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