President Muhammadu Buhari has to emulate some of the leadership qualities of one of his predecessors, Olusegun Obasanjo, in tackling the herdsmen menace across the country, Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has said. Soyinka made the statement on Friday, April 28, when fielding questions during an open forum he tagged ‘Terms of Enslavement I: Holy Cows, Green Gods, and Law of Karma. The Nobel laureate said Nigerians have been overloaded with problems arising due to leadership deficit. He narrated how Obasanjo stopped the clashes between the Federal Road Safety Commission and the military during his tenure as president.
Soyinka said the first stream of recruits into the FRSC were those who believed in the philosophy and the purpose of the organization. “They were taught not to fear any soldier, and they fought the soldiers very often. I have trophies which were seized from soldiers in my house till today,” he said.
“And Obasanjo was the Head of State when Road Safety began on a national scale. We met one day and he said, ‘Hmmm, Wole, I hear you are fighting my men on the road, if they kill you, don’t come and complain o.’ “But he also did something, you know he’s not my favourite person but I always like to give credit where credit is due; Obasanjo also sent notices around to the military and said, ‘We set up, we encouraged, and we are backing this Road safety group…. From now, you fight any Road Safety on the street, when they are done with you, whatever the result is, you then come back and you eat military punishment." Soyinka said the assault on the Road Safety by the military virtually stopped after Obasanjo intervened. He said as an ex-military leader, the first thing Buhari had to do even before convening any national summit is to “pass the word round that any soldier seen molseting a civilian or any herdsman who attacks any civilian will be disciplined in such a way that he will wish he were a farmer".
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