Inability To Rescue Chibok Girls Is Shameful- Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka chose the occasion of the commissioning of a mega school named after him in the state of Osun to lash out Monday at President Muhammadu Buhari and his team over the non-rescue of 219 Chibok schoolgirls, almost six months since Buhari’s inauguration.

“It is a shame that the nation cannot account for over 200 girls in Chibok. I sympathise with the religious policy of governments in school; children must not be brought up feeling that religion inhibits knowledge.

“In schools, we need not distinguish our children, the fatalistic religious holiness and the holier-than-thou attitude must be reduced among our pupils, ” he said.

Professor Soyinka, ever frank, said He also said the school was an an “emphatic rejection of what Boko Haram insurgents preach”.

Soyinka, however, commended the governor for what he had done to improve the standard of education in the state.

Aregbesola inaugurated the school established by his administration in Ejigbo.

The governor described Soyinka as the greatest scholar in Africa.

The Wole Soyinka Government High School, Ejigbo is a 3,000-capacity complex with 72 classrooms of 49 square-metres, each capable of sitting 49 students and has six offices for study groups.

Speaking on the occasion, the governor said no amount of money spent on education was too much, saying it deserved the utmost attention.

He said that in the first quarter of next year, his government would also inaugurate another set of schools in the same category.

Aregbesola said, “We can construct a good road that will last for 50 years and we are doing that, but this can never compare to the enlightenment an educated person receives in terms of its value to the society and humanity.