THE ANGER AND THE SORROW REMAIN - SALACO JR
Today 16th of May (as usual) sons and dautas of Izon-Ebe (Ijaw Nation) gather in bayelsa state to celebrate the remembrance of their own son (Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro), a young under-graduate with an extraordinary vocation for revolution, came in to national prominence and a figure in history that dominates minorities lives more that any other person to shape the course and destiny of his nation. Yet, at then he remains a controversial figure, enigmatic and elusive: to some a hero, to others an arch villain, a radical to many, a rebel to others; in fact, he was a dragon in his depths.
Boro awakened his people (Ijaw) for action against the exploiters. His revolt against the Federal Government led to the creation of the 12 State in 1967. The tree of political and economic freedom of the oil producing people has been planted by Boro and it needs from time to time the blood of the oppressors and the oppressed to make it grow. It is its natural manure. He had devoted his whole life and strength to what he considered as the most beautiful thing in the world, the struggle for the liberation of mankind.
He was a patriot too precious to lose or be forgotten. If others forget him so soon, Posterity will not. The Ijaw (Izons) remember him not only today, but always. His noble achievements have been recounted in every village and hamlet and has thus become house hold knowledge through-out the length and breadth of the Niger Delta. If tears could build stairway and heartache a lane, we would walk a path to heaven and bring him home again. Today he is a martyr, acknowledge in death than when he was alive.
The anger and the sorrow remain. The joy too, even vivid joy to illuminate the loss, that such a man existed, worked to such great effect, changed to realities the problems of the Niger Delta.
Farewell, dear Major Boro. Your cause will be continued with the deeds of our people. May your soul continue to rest in perfect peace.
Amen.
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