When whoever it was quoted "you have murdered sleep, therefore you shall sleep no more," it was actually for some "imbecile" so-called leaders. Read this excerpt from one of such people...... Now that Danjuma has again reminded us of what was and what is, his lamentation reminds one of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s famous quote of he, being part of a wasted generation. Danjuma insinuated this too in the Zazzau speech, saying that at 75, when he thought it was now time to rest after so many long years of toil and labour. He however finds as preposterous that he cannot sleep now with his two eyes closed because of what is from what it ought to be. Here is what Danjuma had to say on a day he was honoured with a chieftaincy title that out to be celebrated with pomp and pageantry: ‘’I have taken many risks in my life for the sake of Nigeria, and at the age of 75, I thought I have paid my dues. I just wanted to spend the rest of my life in quiet retirement, leaving the public arena for a new generation of leaders to improve on the modest achievement of my generation. It seems to me now that the real retirement is only possible in the grave. Our lives and living are apparently inevitably tied eternally to responsibilities’’. Danjuma then echoed what many have said about the nation’s economy, declaring that ‘’in a a highly competitive world, our children are missing out in getting qualitative and functional education, The masses of our people are chained down in dehumanising and grinding poverty while we continue to maintain a few islands of prosperity in turbulent ocean of penury and squalor
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:05:26 +0000
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