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Coronavirus Lockdown: Write a play on pandemic later, Coronavirus is about science and not fiction – Presidency replies Soyinka

by Shiz
April 2, 2020
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The Presidency has fired back at Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka who slammed President Buhari over the way he has handled the Coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Recall that in a statement issued on Monday and titled ‘Between Covid and Constitutional Encroachment,’ Soyinka said the president may have overstepped his constitutional boundaries by issuing a lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the FCT. He also described Buhari as a Rip van Winkle of Nigerian history, who woke after a prolonged siesta and begun to issue orders.

The Presidency however countered Soyinka’s claim by stating that his opinion was misleading and strayed away from his career as a playwright. In a statement issued on Wednesday night by President Buhari’s media aide Garba Shehu, the playwright was told to write a play on the Coronavirus pandemic later, as the virus is currently about science and not fiction.

Read the statement below;

“Yesterday, the esteemed Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka made comments on the legal status and description of 14-day lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Prof Soyinka is not a medical professor. His qualifications are in English literature, and his prizes are for writing books and plays for theatres. He is of course entitled to his opinions – but that is exactly all they are: semantics, not science. They cannot – and should not – therefore be judged as professional expertise in this matter in any shape or form.

“Across the world – from parts of the United States and China, to countries including the United Kingdom and France, government – mandated lockdowns are in place to slow and defeat the spread of coronavirus. All have been declared, and all have been made necessary, based on medical and scientific evidence. The guidance of the Nigerian Government’s medical specialists is to advise the same.

“Prof Soyinka has also declared, doubtless based on his specialism as a playwright, that: ‘we are not in a war emergency’.

“Eminent scientists say otherwise: Dr. Richard Hatchett, Head of the International Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (and former Director of the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority) has said, ‘war is an appropriate analogy’.

“Prof Anthony Fauci, Director of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force has said of the battle against the pandemic: ‘It’s almost like the fog of war’.

“As for the legality of the lock down, the government’s primary duty in law and action is the defence of the people of Nigeria. We face a global pandemic. Nigeria is now affected.

“The scientific and medical guidance the world over is clear: the way to defeat the virus is to halt its spread through limitation of movement of people.

“Perhaps Wole Soyinka may write a play on the Coronavirus pandemic, after this emergency is over. In the meantime, we ask the people of Nigeria to trust the words of our doctors and scientists – and not fiction writers – at this time of national crisis,”

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