Speaking at the 20th Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Awards held in Lagos on Tuesday, December 9, Soyinka said he recently witnessed a disturbing level of armed protection attached to the president’s son while at a hotel in the Ikoyi area of Lagos.
In his words
“President Tinubu didn’t have to send the Air Force and Military to deal with the insurrection to our sense of security and equilibrium; no there are easier ways of doing it.
Let me tell you where Tinubu should have looked for forces to quell that insurrection, right here in Lagos or in Abuja perhaps, but there was no need to call the military or the Air Force.
I will tell you what happened in one of my home visits just two months ago, I was coming out of a hotel and I saw what looked like a film set. The young man detached himself from the actors and came over to greet me very nicely politely.
And I said ‘’Are you shooting a film?''
I looked around and there was nearly a whole battalion occupying the ground of that hotel in Ikoyi. So I got back in my car and asked the driver who that young man was and he told me.
I saw the SWAT team, a mixture of heavily armed, at least 15 heavily armed to the teeth security personnel, looked sufficient to take over a small neighbouring country like Benin.
I think the next time the president should just call and say ‘Seyi go and quell the rebellion over there’. I was so astonished that I started looking for the NSA'. I said track him down for me and they tracked him in Paris and I said ‘I have just seen something I can’t believe, I don;t understand and I described the scene to him and I said do you mean the child of the Head of State around with the Army for his protection? I couldn't believe it., I did some investigative journalism and I I found out this is how this young man goes around with his battalion, heavy armed soldiers'' he said
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