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Since that symposium was held in Jos in the year 2000, the same young men worked very hard for collation, careful editing and the ordering of the professional bibliography of the reforms for publication. We gratefully acknowledge their resilience, persistence and devotion to research and documentation.
The second group of persons to which we are highly indebted is the rare assemblage of dedicated intellectuals and scholars who helped individually and collectively in formulating, articulating and implementing our regime’s reforms. We know that such well-meaning people have referred to our regime as one that was uniquely characterised by high-ranking men and women of ideas and calibre. These intellectuals worked with us and for our country without any inducement. Looking back at that historic period, we now realise that these men and women were not properly and adequately rewarded. As individuals, or as a group if we may refer to them as such, we find it difficult to believe that they worked for a regime, which was wrongly perceived "as having institutionalised corruption."
Almost everyone of these intellectuals and scholars lived and have continued to live modest lives with their integrity intact. We thank them immensely. We wish to refrain from naming them here, although the publications on our regimes, by Chief Gabriel Umoden, Prof. Ikenna Nzimiro, and Dr Chidi Amuta mentioned quite a good number of them. We know the listed names in those publications are not exhaustive. We also wish to pay tribute to the memory of two of them, who have passed on, namely, Professor Tunji Aboyade, and Prof. Eme Awa. May their soul rest in peace.
Ladies and gentlemen, I thank for your patience in listening to this courtesy address. I wish you the blessing of Allah, a merry Christmas in advance as you return to your various places of work and abode, and a blissful new year ahead.
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It is not the critic who counts; nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat...THEODORE ROOSEVELT 1910
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