There is a difference between throwing away and destroying a
document. If someone throws away an object or document, there is the chances
that another person might find it somewhere, but when an object or document is
cut into pieces. U cannot use it any more.
It so surprising when Wole Soyinka said he has thrown away
his green card. Such a statement was in its totality at variance with him
saying he was going to cut it. And Soyinka is not trying to play fast, he would
have at least called some witnesses or at least the same media house he used to
make such a threat he actually found difficult to fulfil.
It is believed that as a man of integrity when you make a
public statement about such a sensitive issue publicly, you the fulfilment
should not be done Nicodemusly if you really want the public to take you
seriously. Rather than you postponing the fulfilment of your threat to 2017,
and suddenly coming out to tell the world that you have already fulfilled it by
throwing it away.
Soyinka said he would throw away his green card and depart
the country if the Republican Presidential aspirant to the last month’s
election, Donald Trump wins.
Afterwards, he had vowed to destroy the green card on
Trump’s swearing in day, to protest against the Republican billionaire’s
campaign speeches.
But he has now told Journalists in South Africa that, “I
have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done
what I said I would do.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away
the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always
been.”
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