To those of you born in 1993, June 12 will be perhaps one of
the most significant days of your life. Everyone is born at a certain place and
time for a reason. It's 25 years down the line, and justice is not completely
done.
Like Wole Soyinka said in his blunt speech, we need to
honour these men. But I will push further to say, you need to understand the
times and seasons, and know you were in the year when justice was delayed and
denied.
a declaration of June 12, there is more of justice delayed and justice denied
today than there has ever been. I refuse to talk about what ACTUALLY happened
at the 2015 election, who ACTUALLY won, or how it was later discovered after it
was late.
As we honour the "heroes" and "their
tormentors", we must never forget that the Hope of 1993 is only dead when
we keep silence on Justice.
Falz has spoken, Wole Soyinka has spoken too. It is the turn
of the 1993 generation and upward, some of whose parents were brutally murdered
in their very eyes, some of whose mothers were raped and killed, some of whom
were separated from their brothers and sisters.
O God of creation, direct our noble cause. Guide our leaders
right. Help our youth the truth to know; in love and honesty to grow. And
living just and true, great lofty heights attain to build a nation where peace
and JUSTICE shall reign.
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