What really happened?
I just watched half of the video where Prof Soyinka makes a light hearted attempt at explaining away why his United States of America visiting and tourist visa was revoked.
Wole Soyinka smiles during the press conference on October 28 as he responds to questions about the revocation of his US visa, in Lagos, Nigeria.
He insunuates that his non-resident visa to enter the United States had been rejected, adding that he believes it may be because he recently criticized US President Donald Trump. He however made a joke of his American permanent document having an accident when it made contact with the fingers of a pair of scissors. Meaning that he destroyed his American passport in protest of one of his eccentric protests against one system or issue or the other.
However, one starts to wonder if the man has been mentioned in the issue of Ted Cruz’s war against the genocide on Christians in Nigeria, in which there are fears that Nigeria may be designated as a Country of Particular Concern in the United states of America. This is a law that may activate the Magnisky law in which any caught in the web of this law. The bill is called the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability act.
A Magnitsky law is a type of legislation that allows a government to impose sanctions on foreign individuals and entities responsible for serious human rights abuses or corruption. The name originates from the U.S. Global Magnitsky Act of 2016, which was inspired by the case of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in prison in 2009 after exposing a major fraud scheme. Magnitsky laws allow for penalties like asset freezes, travel bans, and blocking of property, and similar laws have been enacted in other countries like Canada and the European Union
Such asertion is really not far fetched as the man has been romping and dancing with the notoriously corrupt politicians of Nigeria. Talk about lying with goats and rising with fleas.
Is hes a taste of things to come.
The Nigerian author, 91, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, becoming the first African to do so.
Soyinka, who has taught in the US and previously held a green card, joked on Tuesday that his green card “had an accident” eight years ago and “fell between a pair of scissors.” In 2017, he destroyed his green card in protest of Trump’s first inauguration.
The letter he received informing him of his visa revocation cites “additional information became available after the visa was issued,” as the reason for its revocation, but does not describe what that information was.
Soyinka believes it may be because he recently referred to Trump as a “white version of Idi Amin,” a reference to the dictator who ruled Uganda from 1971 until 1979.
The US Consulate in Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos, directed all questions to the State Department press office in Washington, DC, which did not respond to immediate requests for comment.
Soyinka jokingly referred to it as a “love letter” and said that while he did not blame the officials, he would not be applying for another visa.
“I have no visa,” he said. “I am banned, obviously, from the United States, and if you want to see me, you know where to find me.”
