Soyinka calls for International assistance to check Herdsmen Menace (ThisDay)

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Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has urged the federal government to seek international assistance to curb the menace of killings being carried out by Fulani herdsmen nationwide.

He stated this yesterday during a courtesy call on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, at the Benue Peoples House in Makurdi.

Soyinka attended the 35th anniversary of Senator Suemo Chia’s novel, Adan Wade Kohol Ga, written in Tiv.

He said: “If the government cannot cope, it should not shy away from asking for international help.”

When human lives are concerned in their thousands and so on, as it was observed everywhere all over the world, those countries where our military has served before can come to our assistance, I think there should be no business of national integrity, national pride and so on. Read more

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