Dimapur, August 13 (MExN): The FGN says that the rights of the Nagas are ‘intact’ but they should stick to truth, justice an honor. FGN Kedahge “Brig. (Retd)” S Singnya in his ‘independence day’ speech urged for valiant stand to bear the “yoke of national responsibility” in days to come. He stated that the will of the people prevails.
“Politically our right is intact” The FGN Kedahge stated but there are other points that need caution.
“Educationally and economically, our people are (fast) progressing along; with these acquired gains are also associated many undesirable social menaces” Singnya reminded. We have to use our gains to combat those evils which will swallow up our nation by destroying the individual as well as the common Naga identity if left unchecked. I believe our people ever stand to shun violence and immorality but stick to truth and justice and honor” he hoped.
The FGN leader also paid tributes to those who laid down their lives for “national cause.” The suffering and trauma which the people have endured shall be a grim reminder to the coming generations, he stated. “…the price that our people had to pay for the sake of freedom and liberty” Singnya reminded.
Further sovereignty is Go-given, according to the Kedahge. It is what which cannot be bought, be humbled or be destroyed by others, he explained, adding that the unrest in the Nagas’ land today is an internal problem. “Other nations too faced (with such) at one time or the other in its history; individual ambitions, sectoral ideologies which are shameful menace may be afflicting us but truth and will of the people prevails” he acknowledged.
The FGN also advised the people to not be “cocooned by the false propaganda of the ongoing peace talks between the GoI and the NSCN-IM.” He asserted that it would only be eyewash in the end but for “which our people will have to suffer more if anyone believes or expect honorable results from it.”
“Brig.” S Singnya however appreciated the efforts of the Naga Church and the Naga civil society to stop fratricidal killings in the Nagas’ land and to bring about reconciliation which remains elusive. “It will be incomplete on my part if I fail to especially thank the churches and the different organizations within and abroad who genuinely and tirelessly work and share with our cause morally and materially for the right that we stand for” he acknowledged.
He advised thus: “It is time enough for our people to put into use your discerning wisdom and choose whether to be a free people or a subjugated people aiming at individual glory and keeping behind national warfare.” Further, while history cannot be “started afresh,” what can be done is “let us stick to the truth” and let this set one free, he exhorted, with the affirmation that the NNC/FGN stands to uphold a just cause, envisioning a nation of freedom and liberty.
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