> Your footpath is impeccable
> Your ideals are our inheritance
> Your struggle is our concern
> And your execution exposed our dilemma.
>
> The conspiracy completed
> The machinations meanly mastered
> Beginning with accumulated absurd arrests
> Of all daring darlings of the peoples nationwide
> That created the finical final for fusillade.
>
> Your footpath is impeccable
> Your ideals are our inheritance
> Your struggle is our concern
> And your execution exposed our dilemma.
>
> The bilking bestial  Babangida's boisterous beasts
> Savagely  set up sickening scene
> Firmly fastening facilely the conviction's cincture.
> But the express exit of the worthless warder was wearily won
> And figurehead Shonekan silly and errantly enthroned
> Whilst coveted claimant of our mandate in detention dwindled.
> And so surrogated snobbish Sani Abacha suddenly supplanted
> Displacing democratic structures sickly at will
> Incarcerating ingenious all articulate activists of the punished peoples
> Before descending despicably on you and additional activists of Ogoni.
>
> Your footpath is impeccable
> Your ideals are our inheritance
> Your struggle is our concern
> And your execution exposed our dilemma.
>
> And so the autarchic Abacha  trooped  tacky tribunal
> Who every jurisdiction jolted only to sentence the activists
> Eventually, they had their wayward way
> Condemning the valiant Ogoni nine to death
> And rashly the erratic errant Abacha
> Sanctioned senselessly the execution order
> That exposed his neurotic nature nakedly
> And made the whole world disconcerted
> Plunging the giant of Africa into dear darkness.
>
> Your footpath is impeccable
> Your ideals are our inheritance
> Your struggle is our concern
> And your execution exposed our dilemma.
>
> Ken, it is true you are dead
> It is a fact you are killed
> But can your spirits die like that?
> Can your legendary legacies vanish like that?
> No, no! That will never be!
> You are the sure soldiers of the people
> And the sacrificial warring warriors of your land
> That you fended for before you were eliminated.
>
> Your footpath is impeccable
> Your ideals is our inheritance
> Your struggle is our concern
> And your execution exposed our dilemma.
>
> We rally remember you today
> Locally, nationally and internationally
> And we consciously condemn them today
> Overtly, covertly and loudly
> We will cutely continue to remember you
> Locally, nationally and internationally
> And we will constantly continue curse them
> Overtly, covertly, loudly and universally
> Because you and others are maverick martyrs
> And they are ominous oppressors
> And mistrustful miscreant monsters.
>
> Your footpath is impeccable
> Your ideals is our inheritance
> Your struggle is our concern
> And your execution exposed our dilemma.
>
>
>    Dehinde Idowu
>    Freie Universitat Berlin.

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