It’s a shame that FG yet to account for Chibok girls – Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka yesterday described the inability of the federal government to give account of the over 200 missing Chibok girls abducted by, Boko Haram, as a “shame”.

Soyinka spoke after a mega-school was named after him in Osun state by Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

He also said the school was an an “emphatic rejection of what Boko Haram insurgents preach”.

“It is a shame that the nation cannot account for over 200 girls in Chibok. I sympathise with the religious policy of governments in school; children must not be brought up feeling that religion inhibits knowledge.

“In schools, we need not distinguish our children, the fatalistic religious holiness and the holier-than-thou attitude must be reduced among our pupils.”