MOVE ON

You may be fighting with bare hands,

But move on with that spirit of your ancestors,

With both courage and that volcanic fire

In your hearts to consume the filthy

enemies who are mere street urchins and brigands.

Move on for the sake of country and fatherland,

Move on for the sake of Nigeria’s sovereignty

And her determination to lead the world

in all things.

 

Move on to conquer those beggars and slaves,

Move on to smash their skulls and bury alive every enemy.

For those with hearts fixed on their loved ones whilst in the battlefield,

I’m aware of how every of your loved ones matters to you,

But commit them all to your God

and still move on for the sake of Nigeria,

for whose sake you are here fighting to liberate

and usher into the body politics the peace

that surpasses all understanding.

To each and everyone of your loved ones

now worried, anxious, and disturbed very greatly,

Let them know all our fighting men and women

will return unhurt by the enemies’ bullets and bombs!

Your pay may just be peanuts and hardly enough

for you in the battlefield, and your loved ones back home,

But move on still to get the job done!

And again, I say to you: move on!

M-o-v-e on!

 

May God bless our gallant troops in the field

And all the troops that the batons of war

shall be passed onto very soon as to the field they haste

to join all fighting for the freedom and glory of Nigeria

Therefore, move on with that your legendary courage

and boldness inherited from your forebears until the battle is won!

• Nigerian version written on June 30, 2019, at 20.18, UK Time.

 

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