Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has disclosed that he informed the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, about President Bola Tinubu’s son, Seyi.
Soyinka explained that he contacted Ribadu after observing the heavily armed security personnel assigned to Seyi Tinubu.
While speaking at the 20th Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Awards in Lagos on Monday, Soyinka said assigning such a large armed escort to a young person poses a danger to the country.
According to Soyinka: “I started looking for the National Security Adviser, I said, track him down for me. I think they got him somewhere in Paris with the president at a meeting.
“And I said, I have just seen something which I can’t believe and understand. I described the scene to him and said, Do you mean that the child of the Head of State goes around with an army for his protection or whatever?
“I couldn’t believe it, so I did some investigative journalism, I enquired and discovered that this is how this young man goes around with these battalions and heavily armed soldiers, and, of course, the road was cleared before his car went out. I stayed until he was leaving
“Let’s not overdo things. This is not the first country that has a head of state; this is not the first country whose head of State has a family, and I think children should know their place.
“They are not Heads of State, and the security architecture of a nation like this suffers some injury when we see a heavy devotion to one young individual.”
