Years of bad governance is responsible for our current economic situation - Wole Soyinka

According to the post extracted from the facebook page of Ministry of Information and culture, Prof. Wole Soyinka paid a visit to the Hon. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in his office at the Head of Service today.

He said he actually came to return the minister's visit. Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has blamed the current economic situation in the country on years of bad governance, and urged the federal government to call an emergency economic conference to address the situation.

''The economic condition of a nation, of a people does not deteriorate overnight. Something came before that deterioration,''- Prof . Wole Soyinka

  While responding to a question on the current state of the nation's economy, he blamed the deterioration of the economy on a prolonged and unchecked process of attrition, adding that Nigerians should not expect a quick turnaround of the economy.

''Recovery is going to take quite a while. The President should call an emergency economic conference with experts to be invited as well as consumers, producers, labour unions, university experts and professors, among others. I think, we really need an emergency economic conference, a rescue operation bringing as many heads as possible together to plot the way forward,'' the Nobel Laureate said.

Wole Soyinka intensified that the Governm
ent must remain resolute in its ongoing fight against corruption, while also expressing satisfaction with both the target and tempo of motion as far as the Government's efforts are concerned. He urged the Government to pursue the anti-corruption battle within the confines of the law, saying if that goal of fighting corruption is attained by positive means, if nothing else, the Government would have moved the nation forward by many years.