Being text of the 2017 General Murtala Muhammed memorial lecture
titled, 'MANAGING THE BOKO HARAM CRISIS IN BORNO STATE: Experiences
& Lessons for a multi-party, multi-ethnic and multi-religious
Nigeria' delivered by Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima at the Shehu
Musa Yar'adua Center in Abuja on Monday, February 13, 2017.
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| Gov. Kashim Shettima |
Apart from the immeasurable national impact he made
within just 198 days (less than seven months) in office, what is
decidedly affirmed to be the late General Murtala Muhammed's most famous
speech set the stage for Africa's epochal confrontation with colonial,
racist and settler regimes in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique,
Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe), and South Africa. At the Extra-Ordinary
Summit of African Heads of States under the Organisation of African
Unity, held in Addis Ababa, the political capital of Africa, on January
11th, 1976, Africa's martyr General Murtala Muhammed, put the world on
notice. The speech aptly titled "Africa has come of age" declared that
our countries, and by
