Herdsmen: Soyinka’s house not invaded —Son

Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta

Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, one of the children of the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described as baseless and outright falsehood the reports of invasion of his father’s residence at Abeokuta by some herdsmen with their cows on Wednesday.

The alleged invasion had trended on social media for the better part of yesterday.

Dr Olaokun Soyinka had however in a statement circulated on social media debunked the story saying that it was an event that never happened.

It would be recalled that some social media platforms published a story that “Prof Wole Soyinka’s house was attacked last night by Fulani hoodlums and miscreants to assassinate him because of his numerous truth to power and particularly, because of his recent News Interview where he spoke truth to the Presidency especially advising Buhari to come out openly and denounce the Fulani herdsmen bastdardly acts of violence in the Southern parts of Nigeria”.

But Dr. Olaokun Soyinka in the statement said  the story was nothing, but fake.

He said, “This is not true, please do not circulate further and help to debunk it.

“It is an attempt to encourage discord. Although some cows were spotted, neither Prof or his house was attacked by anyone.

“I have confirmed this today (Wednesday 10th) directly myself from him.

“Kindly do not fall for this attempt, whatever the motive, to further inflame this problematic situation,” he concluded.