Speaking on Wednesday at a press conference at his Kongi’s Harvest Art Gallery, Freedom Park, Lagos, Playwright and social critic, Prof Wole Soyinka, has advised those he said were sleeping all the while Nigerians were being killed to return to sleep, instead of tagging as illegal ‘Operation Amotekun’ initiated by the Southwest governors to tackle insecurity in the region.
The Nobel laureate and the Akogun of Isara traced his past concerns for sanity on roads through a memo he made to the then military governor of the Western State, Maj. Gen. David Jemibewon (retd).
He said: “The Amotekun outfit was set up by the Southwest governors to tackle cases of insecurity in the region which existing security bodies have been unable to address.
”Operation Amotekun has come to stay irrespective of its legality as it is a result of meetings to curb menace in the region.
“Some people who have been sleeping all this time, taking belated actions, watching the people being decimated… and telling us that this initiative is illegal. They should go back to sleep. Amotekun has come to stay.”