That I am happy to be here, Respected Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen gathering here today.
I am indeed grateful to the leaders of the programme for giving me the privilege to speak at this rare occasion standing by the endowment ground of our great leader Dr. A.Z. Phizo, Naga National Council, President. Truly that the Nagas of Nagaland are not assimilated Indigenous people under any other foreign rulers.
Let us go to the times ages ago, that our forefathers had brought forth on this highland conceived in democratic liberty and freedom to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engage in a war met aggressor armed forces at the gates and at the doors, thus have come across untold miseries of bitter test in defense of sovereign Nagaland, testing whether that Nation so conceived can long endures that that Nation might live under the leadership of Dr. A.Z. Phizo.
Today we have come here to dedicate a portion of his as final resting place. It is altogether befitting and proper that we should do this. The world will take little note nor long remember what we do, but what we say here will never forget and perish. But in a larger and a higher sense we can not dedicate and hallow the ground, that our great leader who struggled here made the ground dedicated far above so nobly in advance prior to our poor knowledge and understandings. That, it is for us the living rather to be dedicated here, it is rather to dedicate to the great task remaining unfinished before us learning from the honourable dead with increase devotion to that cause for which he gave the full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that this dead shall not have died in vain under God and that government of the whole people for whole people by the whole people of Nagaland shall not perish.
Ladies and gentlemen arise, what had been done, nothing lost in the fog and nothing remain eyes sow not. All men are just, all men are not true. That for every scoundrel there is a hero and for every selfish minister there is a dedicated leader. The test of fire makes our leader Dr. A.Z. Phizo is the true, the hero and the dedicated leader with sublime faith leaded the people in the unsinkable ship.
KUKNALIM!
“That which had been is now and that which is to be had already been and God requires that which is past”.
I. Toshi Sangnen Ao.
Joint Secretary, NNC
