Literary icon, Professor Wole has dismissed public stereotyping of the National Association of Seadogs a.k.a Pyrates Confraternity, as a secret cult.
He said the negative percepton has persisted despite what he described as decades of public service, advocacy and enlightenment campaigns.
“The larger society still finds it difficult to accept the obvious, that this is not a secret cult,” Soyinka said during the foundation-laying ceremony of the group’s new national secretariat in Abuja.
He said of the Nigerian public: “When they get hold of a negative idea, it is very difficult to win them away from that idea”.
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If anything, the Pyrates Confraternity is a transparent organisation engaged in humanitarian and advocacy work.
On the association’s new secretariat, he said it would help to expand the organisation’s humanitarian and advocacy programmes nationwide.
The Capoon of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS) Dr. Joseph Oteri who also spoke at the event, said it reinforces the group’s commitment to justice and human dignity.
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