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00:00Is there still room for a Nadeko for the younger Nigerians to continue the struggle or has
00:19the mindset of the nation shifted from the kind of commitments that Nadeko made to the
00:27struggle?
00:34You know that Heroes of Democracy were honoured yesterday, it's a message to the young people
00:49that sacrifice can still pay off, not that people will not pay a heavy price, as I said
01:11people died, people were killed, people were executed, people were poisoned, Abacha was
01:20a devil incarnate, but who won at the end?
01:28The people won and this will be a lesson to the young people, don't give up, don't, you
01:39know, presume that it's going to be difficult and that therefore, why bother, no, bother,
01:55you go to other countries, those other countries, people paid a heavy price, in fact you'll
02:08recall just last week, they had this Normandy celebration, do you know how many thousands
02:23of young people, 17, 18, 19, died in that battle of Normandy?
02:33People came from the United States to die in countries they've never even heard of,
02:42to die for the freedom of people they've never known, but they came because freedom and democracy
02:53are worth fighting for, because at the end, that is why God created us, but if we are
03:04going to sit down at home and say well I don't know Belgium, I don't know Italy, I don't
03:16know where you are sending me, I'm not going, then what kind of a world would we have?
03:25And I think that is the lesson of Nadeko, these were people who were not sure we were
03:31going to win, in fact, that is the reason, I mean, that's the lesson for all the things
03:41that I said, we were not sure we were going to win, how many, you know, and think of the families
03:50of those who lost, people who, I think about 70 of us who are declared heroes of democracy
04:02yesterday, but we were not sure we were going to be there, so for the youth, don't wait for the
04:15certainty of success before you get involved in the struggle, you are born a Nigerian,
04:24you have no choice in that matter, you are born a Nigerian, fight that that Nigerian
04:36into which God made sure you are born into survives and becomes a good place.