INDEPENDENCE BUT NOT FREEDOM

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Just like yesterday, eyes twinkled graciously when the GREEN WHITE GREEN symbol was hoisted in ladies at exactly 12:01am.

What great joy blossomed on the faces of joyous Nigerians when sir Ahmadu Tafawa Balewa gave a speech that between an old era and a new beginning.

The song that flew across the lips of joyous Nigerians was 'Nigeria we hail thee our own dear native land'

My dear Nigeria is a country glowing with milk and honey
A country on whose soils the roots of greatness lies
A country with resources immeasurable like the birds in the sky or like the water in the ocean
A country with people so strong that they made medicine sick.

But its 59years,59 years of struggling, 59years of toiling, 59years of wailing, 59years of yearning, 59 years of hoping.

Little did we know that we only gained independence in 1960 but not freedom.

What can be done to break this pain?
What can be done to break this shackles of rankle

How can we proffer a solution to this situations?
An adage states "of what use is the head when the root is destroyed"?
You and you and I are the roots of this nation and therefore,

The song says Arise o compatriots, who are the compatriots? I AM and
I WILL PLEDGE TO NIGERIA MY COUNTRY
TO BE FAITHFUL, ROYAL AND HONEST,
I'LL SERVE NIGERIA WITH ALL MY STRENGTH,
I'LL DEFEND HER UNITY
AND I WILL UPHOLD HER GLORY.
©KeyAfrica

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