Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has lamented the continued captivity of the missing Chibok girls.
Professor
Soyinka said further that the situation was especially worrying due to
the fact that no one could say what had become of the girls.
The
eminent playwright made the statement on Saturday, June 6, 2015, while
giving a speech titled “Faith, Science and Imagination in the Temple of
Knowledge” at the convocation ceremony of the Kwara State University,
“It
is disheartening that the abducted girls have not been rescued about 60
weeks after their kidnap. The kidnapped pupils were potential doctors
when we sent them to take their first qualifying examination; up till
today we cannot say whether they are alive, whether they are in slavery
or had been sold off,” Soyinka said.
“All
we know is that they have been dehumanised, brutalised and their
childhood taken away from them. Sometime I wonder whether we are
speaking of a remote, newly discovered planet or we are speaking of this
very planet on which you and I are standing today,” he added.
The Chibok girls were abducted by Boko Haram militants on April 14, 2014 and most of them remain in captivity.
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