Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s war against corruption is going to be a tough one because corruption always fights back in Nigeria.
Soyinka said this while speaking with the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who paid him a courtesy visit in his office at Freedom Park, Lagos Island.
He said “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 described the alleged Rivers state dinner expenses as “insulting, disrespectful and highest desperation” for anyone to try to rubbish his image on the pages of newspapers.”