Vanguard (Lagos)
14 September 2008
The story of the mystery gun man who stormed a radio station in the 60s and got what the then government considered as inciting statement broadcast re-echoed at the presentation of a book on Wole Soyinka written by a foreign journalist
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Everything this man has said about Professor Wole Soyinka is right. I was a regular visitor at Wole's house in Bodija Ibadan in the company of Tunji Oyelano from Unife Ibadan branch. Is it not surprising to hear that Wole used to smoke cigarettes? I can never forget when I was sent to bring him to the police station after I had just left his house. He was very magnanimous and smply asked me to allow him to get a tooth brush and tooth paste. I was always visiting him till I left town. At all times, he advised "Officer, dont smoke, it will kill you".