Breaking: Details emerge as Soyinka reacts to Tinubu’s speech on hunger protests

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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has reacted to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s national broadcast on the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protesters.

Soyinka faulted Tinubu’s speech for not addressing the violent crackdown by security forces on protesters.

Soyinka says Tinubu’s speech didn’t address Police brutality against protesters Photo credit: @TheTope_Ajayi
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The 90-year-old expressed concern over Tinubu’s omission of this critical issue, Vanguard reports.

He said Tinubu’s speech didn’t address Police brutality against protesters

The statement partially reads:

“My primary concern, quite predictably, is the continuing deterioration of the state’s seizure of protest management, an area in which the presidential address fell conspicuously short.“Such short-changing of civic deserving, regrettably, goes to arm the security forces in the exercise of impunity and condemns the nation to a seemingly unbreakable cycle of resentment and reprisals.“Live bullets as the state response to civic protest – that becomes the core issue. Even tear gas remains questionable in most circumstances, certainly an abuse in situations of clearly peaceful protest.

Source: Legit.ng