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“Religion Has Become The Number One Problem For Nigerians” – Wole Soyinka
Soyinka made the remarks on Saturday throughout an interplay with a professor of African Literature, Louisa Egbunike.
Wole Soyinka, the world-famous Professor of Literature and famend creator, has mentioned that faith was not permitting Nigerians suppose like rational people.
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Soyinka made the remarks on Saturday throughout an interplay with a professor of African Literature, Louisa Egbunike.
He mentioned:-
“Faith has turn into the primary downside for Nigerians.”
Soyinka added that any faith that turns into an excuse for the adherents to flout Nigeria’s legal guidelines must be “tackled head-on”.
He mentioned:-
“If for example a legislator, later a governor, can declare the suitable to be a pedophile and bask in cross-border baby trafficking, celebrating baby marriage, then consummating that occasion, which is towards the legislation of a nation, and he says he has a proper to do it as a result of his faith permits it; then each he and that faith ought to simply be proven the best way to the legislation courts and handled like different phenomena of society.”
Soyinka mentioned the identical therapy must be meted to those that “use faith to excuse constructing a church, which collapses on the pinnacle of humanity, lots of them not from Nigeria, a number of from South Africa.
He added:-
“And then you definitely say it was attributable to supernatural forces when you understand very effectively that you simply flouted the situations for growing the flooring of your constructing.”
“Faith Has Turn out to be The Quantity One Drawback For Nigerians” – Wole Soyinka
