It’s bad for anyone to brand June 12 struggle 'Yoruba project'– Soyinka

“.... I found it equally lamentable that anyone should attempt to reduce the June 12 struggle to that of an ethnic project.
It is a depressing travesty of the realities, a denial of the existence of a nation’s collective sense of justice and its tenacity in pursuit of that objective.

“No one denies that the immediate family of a victim of robbery feels the pangs of dispossession more keenly than others.
The truth, however, remains that the entirety of the compound itself was violated, arrogantly and contemptuously dispossessed.

“In this case, its very aspiration to a unified identity was simply ground underfoot, compelling a return to the starting block, and even several milestones behind!
Disenfranchisement is the ultimate stigma for any free people.
Again, despite official hostility, corporate blackmail and even victimisation of some adherents of that date…”