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Don’t wait for the certainty of success before you get involved in the struggle for freedom and democracy – Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi
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15/06/2024
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Is there still room for a Nadeko for the younger Nigerians to continue the struggle or has
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the mindset of the nation shifted from the kind of commitments that Nadeko made to the
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struggle?
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You know that Heroes of Democracy were honoured yesterday, it's a message to the young people
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that sacrifice can still pay off, not that people will not pay a heavy price, as I said
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people died, people were killed, people were executed, people were poisoned, Abacha was
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a devil incarnate, but who won at the end?
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The people won and this will be a lesson to the young people, don't give up, don't, you
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know, presume that it's going to be difficult and that therefore, why bother, no, bother,
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you go to other countries, those other countries, people paid a heavy price, in fact you'll
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recall just last week, they had this Normandy celebration, do you know how many thousands
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of young people, 17, 18, 19, died in that battle of Normandy?
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People came from the United States to die in countries they've never even heard of,
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to die for the freedom of people they've never known, but they came because freedom and democracy
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are worth fighting for, because at the end, that is why God created us, but if we are
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going to sit down at home and say well I don't know Belgium, I don't know Italy, I don't
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know where you are sending me, I'm not going, then what kind of a world would we have?
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And I think that is the lesson of Nadeko, these were people who were not sure we were
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going to win, in fact, that is the reason, I mean, that's the lesson for all the things
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that I said, we were not sure we were going to win, how many, you know, and think of the families
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of those who lost, people who, I think about 70 of us who are declared heroes of democracy
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yesterday, but we were not sure we were going to be there, so for the youth, don't wait for the
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certainty of success before you get involved in the struggle, you are born a Nigerian,
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you have no choice in that matter, you are born a Nigerian, fight that that Nigerian
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into which God made sure you are born into survives and becomes a good place.
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