Prof. Wole Soyinka has asserted that abduction of students is a new cultural enterprise in Nigeria.

The celebrated writer, who spoke during the public presentation of Dr Nike Okundaye’s biography written by Kofo Adeleke, on Victoria Island, Lagos, decried how schoolchildren’s kidnapping seem to have become a new cultural enterprise in Nigeria.

Soyinka said, “So, let me say how delighted I am to be here today, some of the icing on the cake of the last few days, which have been very traumatic for us, Nigerians, and for humanity in general, you know the kidnapping of schoolchildren which seems to become a Nigerian culture as a new cultural enterprise in Nigeria but I suppose as they say, all is well that ends well, it ended well so far; we await the next blue in-between.

“However, let us rejoice, let us celebrate creativity, let us celebrate the potential of all these children who have been rescued from this monsters, barbarians who just cast a permanent blight on our lives.

“So, thank you for giving us this occasion, for timing this occasion so that it becomes a bigger celebration than even what we are witnessing around us.”