Hate Speech Bill Targeted At Opposition - Soyinka

Good morning and let me start by expressing how happy I am to have been able to participate in this exchange. It was a little out of character in business and at one point, actually, yeah, oh yeah, at one point, I actually thought I'd have to video text because there was a little bit of ecological confusion and then something It happened again a few days ago, but I thought no, I can't give these people a heart attack, I just have to come this morning, that preliminary is to apologize. Myself to warn that I will have to leave immediately after my opening

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, but I know that they are very, very capable hands and the discussion will continue to be lively.

I didn't even tell my hosts before because I didn't like them. to start fainting or something I just decided it's here I will reveal to you that I have to leave immediately to my address in fact I sent you a note at one point I told you that I would like to have an event order I also want to know how long or how long you want I spoke and I received a note very and biggest color in the world none bigger see we have to look in the mirror from time to time and compare ourselves with what is happening to other people, I should mention that during this call this ridiculous opera group of Gilbert and Sullivan, the so-called coup d'état with some mockery of rifles bought at their rock brand, I mean, they needed to come here and see what the coos are like, I mean, cool should have done that too. some respect for ourselves that the prom was not a military coup at all, but it is important for us to know that even when they were Spartan religions because there are many lessons in that episode for us, while talking about religion and revolutionary rhetoric, we which was really their background, quote, they had occupied lands and the government was in constant dilemma about whether to expel them, so they seized some lands.

I'm in the government and I built on them, so, sir, when Richardson was minister of national security, it was his job to figure out how to deal with them. I made them stop building, thus gaining their growth now, maybe that reminds you of something. take very close hold of the nerve center of this nation's security services, the Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Headquarters by what was then nothing more than a ragged group of insurgents like these very people, the bombing of the United States. The United Nations headquarters, the bombing of various media outlets, etc., that's exactly how it started if we don't learn the lessons, one of the people we never manage to recover who we are and I must add that the Minister of Defense in that call blow in Trinidad was a shot in the leg.

I consider that shot, however painful, to be an honorable wound for a farmer, then the wound suffered by our Minister of Defense, who shot himself in the mouth with a comment in unacceptable language about the Fulani attacks , adds the man who made. What they are expected to do is after hundreds of people have been killed. what they expel them to do if they block their route. peoples everywhere so we terrible etc land grabbers are trying to build on land that is not theirs and you obstruct them, why do you want them to? Farmers are occupying land from which they obtain their food and they complain, they dare to complain.

Their cows trampled their friends and ate their food, they are their crops, so what do you expect the cow to have to do? And, of course, let's not forget the kidnapping of the girls. The last adaptation is his fault. So they know that Boko Haram. He doesn't like girls going to school stupid girls stupid teachers stupid fathers it's of any use to them it's a restriction to be able to say outside the world that that Minister of Defense is still in Horacio's cabinet this is not a question of feeling I get impatient when I hear complaints like Buhari has not been able to go and sympathize with the people or he has distanced himself from the people or the Arawa evil with the people has stagnated about who needs presidential sympathy or w

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ver it is sympathy for us to put their broken lives back together is sympathy the issue of the that we are talking here about an eternal good that is fundamental, a fundamental human being that deserves justice, that is what we are talking about about sympathy, we are without the ostentatious placement of Rives, these are the mass graves of the victims of the new messiahs, sympathy is an ordinary good accessible to all We are talking however, above the people's need for security and we are the structures for that, we do not hold perpetrators accountable even when I am implementing deterrent measures against repetition, we are talking about governance, will and responsibility, the willingness to respond with massive punitive actions when the fundamental security of the people is violated, we are talking here about a president who appears on the scene of human desecration, not to stare at anyone, but to read the riot booklet, give orders Right at the site of the violation, order your forces into action against the arrogant and bloodthirsty renegades of society. that they are all in the blood of others, having somehow been secured the mantle of impunity, speaking well of the courage to decree such monsters as terrorists and enemies of humanity with the same speed as the Declaration of much less violent countries and much less destabilizing. movements orbit disruptive and supernaturalist and sometimes unpleasant in their positions and activities of artists, in fact we are speaking against, we speak for a culture of impartiality, let me emphasize again and again unambiguously, this is not a question of whether or No. one is against or agrees with the direction and methods of mass movements.

Bob OPC I am aware that that is not the problem, the problem is completely unequivocal and indisputable, it is simply this, an organization has been going up and down the nation and falling teeth on innocent people, etcetera, etcetera, its spokespersons appear in the unrepentant media distorting history by ripping apart the sequence of cause and effect by asking the government to rescind its laws, state governments or otherwise, and then adapting the action to the world, proceeding to challenge such laws and then proceeding. threaten the continuation of the same acts of predation that have put a nation on the defensive simply because of the failure of governance.

Have you ever encountered a very cynical interpretation of the sequence of cause and effect when the spokespersons for this organization, these associations come out and Say no, the murder is taking place because of the laws that were created to stop the murders that had taken place. I am talking about such cynical and blatant doublespeak, and I have not heard of even such a lightning bolt being summoned for questioning, unlike many other Pacific countries. protesters around the world, but let's pause there for a moment, let's pause, you see, sometimes I worry about the short memory of this nation and let's now return to this question of the presidential presence, where and as necessary, There are or have not been presidents in this nation.

Does it help us if we discern to identify a pattern, an apparent tradition of alienation of power, how long ago was it that in this very nation, in fact, in this very city of Lagos, in the bustling commercial capital, a section called Acadia, the national armory rose in series? detonations by launching bombs in commercial and residential areas. I was at the scene afterwards, so there were huge holes in the roofs of houses, including that of our literary comrade JP Clarke. He had a huge hole in the way the bomb went through the ceiling. Acadia was in a collective panic without knowing what. demons from hell had descended upon them hundreds of people drowned in the Acadia Canal we had covered the canal in a directionless flight to save their lives the bombing had registered in their minds not even as a coup d'état but as an invasion, The prolonged and indiscriminate bombing was so strong that they could not believe that this was just a coup d'état and what would the government do if the president at that time, the commander in chief of the armed forces, ignored Bassalleckj or of this nature?

I do visit the massacre site, but it would have been much better if you had stayed away because when you got there and the bedraggled survivors surrounded it pleading for help protesting, all the answers you received were words of teeth bared in the snow and an additional devastating bombardment. what to do I am not obliged to be here we think things are very easy you know well spoken doctor general president of works that excellent model of leadership has survived with a vengeance his immediate successor whom you yourself bustard M placed alone Oh with a little help from God I believe he admitted later took the same government model as President Jonathan waited almost three weeks to accept the fact that more than 270 of our children have been kidnapped in the village of Chiba he insisted it was all a ruse by the

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to discredit their government and then precious days were lost in which those girls could have been saved.

His wife proceeded to declare one of the most disgusting acts of incoherent, meaningless and purposeless burial mound investigation Sharad OVA ever witnessed in this in this in this world anyway the business of horseplay is very lucrative these days so So I think let me back up a little bit. I will reveal something to you here. I return to the former president. I call him and complain. I protested to him. Said. I think about the time I'm not sure if you know, I don't want him to call me a liar and I met physically or was it on the phone, I got ready for dinner after people think we don't talk to that too, you know, so I called.

To severely reprimand him for his reaction, I told him, you want to be accepted as a political leader and you don't even accept that it is your duty to have been present in a sin or disaster created by your own army, did you really try? Those words that they asked you, were they really attributed to you by others? His answer remains an enigma to me to this day. His actual words. The exact word that is not easily forgotten. I'll show you what his words were. Where can Pilate here? That's your own camp. Allah as As the saying goes, this is one of those enigmas wrapped in an enigma that until today I had not managed to solve in time.

I try to decode it in so many ways. The only thing I kept was simply a repetition of the same expression. Can't. Polishing here well, w

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ver the origin or strict translation of that expression, brings us anyway to the last compiler of the nation called Duchy and here I must express how pleased I was by the reaction provoked by another contrasting event that took place not far from Duchy and where that presidential declaration that I am not obliged to be here would have been more appropriate, this contrasting but complementary event took place shortly thereafter and is so close to it that the sitting presidential apologists now, when finally, stunned by the critics try to please him. to try to put it into service as a divinely prescribed therapy for the trauma that was inflicted by the Duchy's slap in the face of the nation by the chronically bloodstained hands of Boko Haram, they said oh yes, this was that wedding It was a necessary therapy. for the trauma recently suffered by the kidnapping of those girls, that's what I call blasphemy.

I'm not a religious person, but that's blasphemy. Alternatives whenever available. I'm totally into Tanner's wedding. There are so many formulas that could have been adopted. ensure that the couple still had a wedding without the exhibitionist lavishness that accompanied it so soon after a national calamity in each of those options the presence of a president who had still returned to respond with his own physical authority to two scenes of slaughter was limited. human nearby As a basic result, the nation was in mourning, quite waiting for the couple and then celebrations, wherever they understand that it is a very interesting place these days and both parents could have allowed that and saved us that slap in a disaster, it was one . of those cases where the one passenger formula would have been applied when President Buhari should have told them not only that I am not obliged to be here but I am obliged not to be here, it is as elementary as that, now let us see if we can find Our way back to Haiti, after everything the meandering tea cards recommend, was that island that suffered, speaking now proportionally in size in relation to the land mass of the population, one of the greatest human disasters in human history recent.

It is estimated that more than 200,000 people died in just a quarter of a century. million Wellings some dilapidated but the houses the houses were razed the city center was dead hospitals dead factories etcetera etcetera etcetera it is not necessary to review the applause statistics let's also use our imagination to try to remember what Haiti became after that earthquake There was chaos, of course there was some looting, butlook what the former president of the United States said when he called for systems around the world. Quote, former US President Bill Clinton acknowledged the problems and said that Americans should not be deterred from supporting the relief effort by an altered biopsy, should not be bothered by altering scenes like the Lefton looting and the General Peak, an enthusiastic deputy commander of the US military.

However, the Southern Command announced that, despite stories of looting and violence, there was less violent crime in Port-au-Prince as the capital after the earthquake than before. Again I refer you to Trinidad, the report goes on to say in many neighborhoods in many neighborhoods. Singing was heard throughout the night and groups of men coordinated to act as security groups. Women's groups also tried to address food and hygiene needs in the days after the earthquake. Hundreds were seen marching through the streets in peaceful processions singing and clapping. bringing that disaster to this area and I wondered if I could witness the lack of community spirit coming together to deal with an unprecedented disaster Port-au-Prince, the capital is full of hills, so you can imagine the narrow and crooked roads, the congestion in everyone's eyes because all the people who were destabilized on the plains crowded into the hills.

It went even further, so that today traffic through the lanes around the hills can take hours. I am ashamed to say that to meet commitments that in fact the visit turned out to be almost a state visit, we had to turn to the government. provided a car with a siren, but we didn't use the siren, the driver used that thing, but what I want to emphasize is that when we left the lane, the drivers stayed in their position, they didn't try to follow our car, they recognized the fact that it was a Some kind of emergency vehicle and they stayed in line.

Tran imagines a dark scene here, he can imagine the congestion in Lagos, not even going up here, but just on the plains of Lagos. Lagos can imagine what would happen if it had been oceans or Nigerians walking up the hill. there but even more critical when we go to the suburban areas in Port-au-Prince we discovered that they were cows yes, cows are raised in Port-au-Prince in Haiti they did not go up the hill to join the congestion no, they did not go, they did not wander around the collapsed buildings, They were not munching on the few farms, farmlands that were around the hills, they were not going to the garden, the lush garden of memory that has been beautifully cultivated. serene area as a representation of a structure I remember no, they didn't go there to say that this is where the action was taking place.

Wayne ranches in little Haiti, all of them Placid ruminating, chewing, contemplating the world and the ranches. I didn't see a single shepherd. I don't see a culture, a steep one, how much more an AK-47 and yet they raise cows, so when I read explanations about the unsustainable, Lake Chad is receding, so there is less pasture and less food, the water is is drying, are we the first people? Having suffered a national natural disaster, do we understand what it is like to suffer the effects of an earthquake? Even nature has been very kind to us, so a lake begins to dry up and that allows any sector of people to come down from the lake.

Chad will buy Elsa to rape, kill, flatten fun lands, open, kill, ambush people in our state in a truck, so what kind of Lake kid is that that drives away so fast that he is so big that he provides an excuse for stabilization? those who mind their own business and provide food for this nation. I don't want to hear all these ridiculous excuses. Yes, it is a fact that must be taken into account. Conferences are held all the time to analyze the effects of the universal drought. Climate change everywhere is affecting everyone. What is special about Nigeria?

Do you even understand what it's like to be submerged in volcanic lava as human beings and find molten lava running downhill towards our homes and we can't cope with simple nature? Phenomenon but not stepped on, take two AK-47s and destabilize the rest of the nation. If they were going to take me feet first in the end, at least if they didn't carry me in a coffin, it was very rigorous. But I remember this event in particular because it all comes down to the thesis of my

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that I told you when it was my turn to speak to give thanks.

Today I have been the subject of some truly overwhelming praise about myself and comments about my career that even spread to the country. from which I come and whose passport I carry, these observations were made in English, in French and in the local language, Haiti, which is Russian domesticated from French and has achieved lingua franca status. However, I continued, I feel obliged to tell you that my presentation that this presentation is from all of you so far remains incomplete, you have all spoken in three languages, but surprisingly considering that all of you are diplomats in one way or another, one language is surprisingly missing , that language is known.

As Diplo uses a special language reserved for diplomats, international civil servants and heads of state, it is up to me to speak to them in that refined language and inform them that I come from the greatest nation in all of Africa. I'm here. I continued a solidarity visit to a younger sister or brother who has also had the honor of being so designated by the head of one of the most powerful and influential nations in the world, the United States, on this visit I intend to see for myself if my However, little sisters are little sisters, Haiti really deserves that honor: one or two of the usual dissenting voices and constipated digestive systems here and there.

I wish to assure you that we in Nigeria have fully digested that praise and proudly conclude that we have firmly won the distinction. and, of course, there is a confusion between the right not to be insulted and the right to feel insulted; the first is possibly close to qualifying as a fundamental human right; the other, however, the right to feel insulted is not at all a fundamental human right, it is. one that must be achieved through hard work, a productive spirit but, above all, a respect and cultivation of human dignity. It includes a sense of responsibility, especially towards the vulnerable in society, especially children, when your children go missing and they see you frolicking. a few meters from where you last saw them you have the right you have lost the right to feel insulted when you are Jason or a behavior that comes from and confers human dignity you lose the right to feel insulted on the contrary to become an object of ridicule individually or collectively, However, don't take my word for it, just study even our media, read and engage carefully with the words of those who persevere even when they seem to have given up in despair.

Read the sample below, among hundreds of other lines from In the national media last week there is a quote from Nigeria that the columnist asks and then goes on to give the answer. I can't say no, but I'm sure Nigeria is sick. Nigeria is empty like a vo with our flowers. Some forces of regression won. Don't stop giving her a number, she is not: my ders was a man. Everything Nigeria touches rusts under life-changing ideologies. Product concepts came to Nigeria. They die. It's funny, but that's how we cook. Idli are the interiors of our airplanes. like the styles of drunken pigs our roads are roads to the grave our vehicles are coffins our telephony is chaos our medicines kill a few L fuels chaos our schools reject the few products and products that remain true to their form include weapons, ammunition, hard drugs, prostitution and Yahoo Yahoo, etc., are you lying?

What else did Donald Trump read? Read? I have no idea, but we know he can't stop reading Twitter now. Who are the champions? The Twitter champions of the world. The Nigerians of Nidoran Twitter. All written and unwritten laws are valid. human decency they invent, they degrade, they contaminate everything they touch, they manufacture events and occasions, they are the scum of humanity, so when Donald Trump, who does not miss his morning tweet, when he encounters Twitter, he encounters his outpouring toxic, what's a conclusion, get these? Internet trolls are tireless, energy and time are unlimited and they completely overwhelmed the rational creative voices that also use that facility called the Internet.

They dominate the virtual environment. They compete to be the first to comment on any event under the Sun of which they are abysmally ignorant. alien that visits this planet and connects to eat the Internet we reach the same ignorant person and reach the same conclusion as Donald Trump who lives right on this planet and eats breakfast on Twitter now let's be careful here we should not talk a lot about the messenger but about the message and no one says for a single moment that the truth should not be told regardless of the messenger if a Twitter if a Nigerian Twitter happens about the truth and conveys it is not a service to all of us, but look Look at what they write in all honesty, look what happens on the Internet in Nigeria.

Some of you may remember certain details because I want to make sure I'm not presenting a completely negative picture of what's going on. No, we're just talking. Honestly, you may remember an attempt in your bachelor days when we planned to march from Lagos to Abuja to try and pressure Mr. Sahni Abacha to start strangling this nation and quit and go somewhere other than music. Yeah, i thought it might be mr. MC always makes an announcement because kill it, kill it, kill it and keep it. He comes to me from time to time, yeah, you might remember that try we made, we planned it at Kenner mrs.

Sheila shows that Larry was alive at that time and remembers how the killings take place there, the gym where we are making plans, organizing, etc., with maps of the war, well, what we couldn't do at that time, we finally had than abort it. That is another story but I am proud to tell you red to red that some of our people have carried out that feat, they recently marched against corruption from Lagos to Abuja, unfortunately it was not reported, very very sad, if it had been a wedding of society. There have been pages and pages in abundance, but this was a group of people who said that we are in a hole that we are going to get out of and they equalized it to cut about 47 days, according to what they told me from here - Abuja, they together with young organizations like the Corruption hunters call themselves tops and Buster's are the ones who give us hope when the loss can continue even though the population occupies the Internet and some of the others now the murderers are also starting to be contagious everywhere murderers that instinct towards homicide who is he joined the bandwagon later, after Boko Haram and then the Fulani hurt a man, by the way, I want you to know that I am never in any office, call them full herdsmen until they identify themselves as Fulani herdsmen, if you check something that I've written because this has been This has been going on for years and I've written about it.

I used to refer to them as herdsmen, but they finally came out in their own right and said they are Fulani Hertz planes, so now we are allowed to actually call them Palani, helps me. I want that distinction to be very, very clear, we don't give names to people unless they give names to themselves and after that and the new culture of kidnapping, armed robbery and murder and ritual slaughter, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, it is sad to discover that the houses were entirely ours. the legislative chambers feel that they too deserve to participate in this bloody murderous party in the zoo taking over the entire nation and how they do it they decide to give a speech that deserves capital punishment now they will hang us if what we say is judged to be a speech, in First of all, you have the Nigerian Internet population, who will be hanged, that is where they are going to start obviously, but you and I know that they will not dare even if they managed to pass such a law.

I know that no one will dare and no one will dare to hate speech, the purpose is simply to silence criticism so that they themselves have immunity so that any act they commit or any suspect that does not come to light so that they hold the executioner's noose over our heads, you know, life has become so trite, so cheap, that a group of supposedly rational intelligent people in this world are especially well off that they are trying to get rid of this degrading punishment called capital punishment, they come and decree hanging, no , they are not going to hang anyone, they just want an instrument to silence. speech is ironic of course that it should call on Nigerians to resist this law.

It should be someone who applauds. I know all about hate speech and this is what brings us back to Donald Trump when I foresaw the nature I did not prophesy it was. It was nothing when I heard the potential leader of a powerful nation about our trauma when I heard hate speech from him and said this man is elected. I will no longer be a member of this community. I received a telephone companion. and orchestrated an avalanche of hate speechby the people of this nation, so now you are complaining about the same man calling you an idiot, people, it makes me laugh.

KKK, he's barely started, he's not done with you for saying no, this man is. a defective and dangerous commodity about to be unleashed on the world and if it is I will no longer be a member of this community you in this nation some of you released an avalanche of hate language what do I want to see you? hanged, no, I just want to see you embarrassed, that's all because it's proving to be worse than we imagine every time someone sees something so menial. I read some things. Said. Oh, who is he? Why do you take it so personally?

Was it a political speech? it's all hot air typical hot air but now you want to be self righteous that's what I'm talking about that's why I say we all need to look in the mirror I just hope in the year because she celebrated her first anniversary recently so You've had time now, Hannah has changed 200 times his past, so maybe Hamilton Kulia cooled down your brains a little and then you were able to start thinking clearly, stop launching hate campaigns. Yes, it would be a pleasure to see some of you, Hank, won. You do not know?

So let's be serious, say yes and understand that we have a problem not only of leadership but of followers. Napoleon's forces were defeated by our descendants under the command of Gasoline. However, Christophe warned that slave masters will never give up, they will. He returned and that is why he erected this enormous defensive fortress that continues to be an object of amazement and study by experts in military architecture. His friend Donald Trump decided to build a monument for himself as well. There was going to be a war across the American landscape that would keep lesser beings out. humanity and did not hesitate to say who they were invention Nigeria invention Haiti mentioned a couple of other places to see that's why I accepted the invitation to go to Haiti to see our sister city nation if Trump calls you all please don't complain, you don't win the right to feel insulted and if you insist that you are insulting me, I will continue laughing, thank you very much.