Those applause are not good for the message, let us give the pastor a good round of applause. Thank you. Thank you so much for that message. I want, with respect, to invite Honorable Minister Eugene Wamalwa to come and welcome the guests to the homestead. Honorable, welcome, the time is yours.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mlembe, wakini mlembe, wakamlembe, mlembe swa, mlembe te, mlembe m, mlimoyo, msoka, chingilo, Karua.
We first want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of you who have left your activities. We know today is Sunday, many of you were in church, others are still on the way coming, but coming here to this homestead to remember our beloved Michael Wamalwa Kijana is a great honor. On behalf of the Wamalwa family, I want to thank you and welcome you here for these celebrations. And here today we are with national leaders. We are also with the leaders of this county and our Western region. We are also with elected leaders representing us in parliament here in the county and nationally. And also we have our council of elders of the Luya region led by elder Noah Wekesa and the Bukusu Council of Elders led by Richard Olkano. All our elders are here and friends of Wamalwa, it is a great honor for you to come and be with us today. This year's celebration is different from other years. For 23 years we have been having this memorial celebration here, but this year is special because we are launching the book of the late Wamalwa Kijana. Truly it has taken us time, but they say it will happen, it will happen. Today you will see what we have been doing all this time. The book is here and I want us to give a chance to a few leaders to greet us, then we can go to the launch of this book, then we can bring the national leaders. So with great respect, I want first to invite our speaker of this county of Trans-Nzoia to inform us the honorable MCAs who are here, he should also help us welcome guests who have come from all corners of Kenya. Honorable Andrew Wanyonyi, welcome, inform us our County Assembly leaders. Welcome, Mr. Speaker. Where was he sitting? I think he is still in the area. So we will invite the leadership of the house. Minority leader. I think the minority leader will come and inform us the honorable ones who are here. Welcome, council elders. Sorry, continue, the council elders MC are not around, gone out, they are coming, okay. I think let us start, they corrected me a little, we must invite the elders first, they welcome us first, then we go to the leaders. That is okay. I think traditionally, the elder must bless the homestead first. So I want to start with the elder, our father of this county, Dr. Noah Maharang'anga Wekesa, to come and welcome us. Welcome, welcome. Zaina, even gazisa ya. Ah, thank you very much. Ah, my young man, Jini wa Malwa. I stand before you as an elder, a friend of the late Vice President Wamalwa Kijana, also as a friend of the family of the deceased. I stand here also as the leader, chairman of the Luya Elders Forum. And I also stand before you as the one who, for years, for four times, has stood for all coalitions that have been held in this Kenya. And because there are many people to speak, I will not go into many things. I want to recognize the elders who have given me the chairman's hat, these are the ones from Western, all of them, Busia, everywhere. And these are the ones who made me when Wangamati died, they said you elder, come, be with us. And I will not say their names, you have seen them. Also, I want, as a leader who was a friend of Wamalwa Kijana, to invite all party leaders who are here today, and all members of parliament who are here, and all government workers who are here, and especially the people of Trans-Nzoia who have come to celebrate with us. I will say just three words. The first word is that the deceased was my friend, and he is the one who built Noah Mahalang'anga, he stood with me until the end. Second, I stand before you as an elder who gives advice, and I have a few words that I want to speak before you as an elder. I have worked with Moi until today and others until today. The things that have brought us here are to see how the life of Wamalwa was. The life of Wamalwa was a person who loved people. He was a national leader. He did not know tribal matters. So there is something we must learn from the history of the late Vice President. We were in Nyeri and we were with the president, and someone said you are too late, only one person will speak here, and he is President Mike Kibaki. All the people refused those words, they said no, we want to hear Wamalwa Kijana and his English, and Wamalwa spoke at that meeting. This means that Wamalwa was a national leader. He was not a lawyer. He was a national leader. What can we learn from him? Second, I am now a leader of the Luya. We have spoken about the unity of the Luya. We speak about the unity of the Luya, others say that is tribalism. He, the old ones, when they sit, it becomes, the Kamba when they sit, the Kikuyu when they sit, the elders, that is tribalism, truly. Our need as Luya elders is to ensure the Luya are united to be one thing, we walk together, and when the time has come, when the Luya now ask themselves, this matter of sharing must end, let today be the first day that will bring all the Luya together and we move forward. The third word is that there are leaders, many of whom are here, and you have come to receive them. These leaders are those who lead their parties. I will not say their names, they are here just for the sake of time. These will unite with anyone who does not like the current government. Sifuna is there, and others, Kachagwa is there, all of them. I as an elder say this. I as an elder say this and I have never been wrong, that they should unite, be together, produce one person, produce one person, because the president we have is a person with a lot of money, and I don't want money to be put first, that we follow money. But the truth is that if we cannot produce one person, the president William Sam Ruto will be president at 2 in the morning. My call is this, my call is this. We have done it before. You cannot reinvent the wheel. We have done this thing four times. I, as chairman of the coordinating committee. I am still alive. My wife Jen is still protecting me. Stand up Jen, let people see you. Stand up. This is the one who protects me. I say that maybe running, I cannot run. Walking, I walk. Speaking, I speak. I want to ask all of you, especially leaders, party leaders, first. First, your interest will come later. Give me a chance, give me a committee, let me lead a coalition of all leaders, the leadership that is in the opposition. And I will deliver because I have delivered four times and God, God has put his hand on me. Whatever I say happens. If I say these people have given me people, let me sit with the committee, we will have a presidential candidate that will send Ruto back to Sukoi. For those many things, I say thank you.
Thank you very much, our elder Noah Wekesa. Thank you very much. Now on behalf of our elders, the Bukusu Council of Elders, I will ask the elder of Lukan to come for one minute to greet. Honorable, our respected guest is approaching, but today is a day of advice, and they say where there are elders, nothing is spoiled. Let us benefit from the wisdom of our elders today because it is a very critical journey we are embarking on. Thank you chairman, welcome. Thank you very much Mik.
Thank you very much. On behalf of the family of Wamalwa, on behalf of the family, where is this person? Thank you, cheers. Forum Dr. God, our guests, our honorable opposition leaders and those who will rule tomorrow. Welcome. Fywe, mundu, wasim. 23 years, but sand. Kunyundi na mwe kunyolundi, kunyolundi. Thank you. We will remain seated first to be able to invite the former president of the Republic of Kenya. Welcome, welcome, welcome our guests, we love you with a heart of love, welcome our guests, we love you with a heart of love, welcome, welcome, welcome our guests, we love you. With a heart of love, welcome, welcome. We have seen our people today, we see. I ask those who have been placed, let us stand so that the one we have, let us stand. A little. I am with. Okay, now. This one. Lord. Just like this, you want a picture. Okay, okay, okay, okay, we tell you. Our one who was good. For the Lord, for the way, for the tent, for the good, for the good. Lok K. Now. We come like this, so what do you know, just don't sit in front of me. Who. You. Kenyatta. Welcome, welcome. I ask us all to stand to welcome the fourth president of Kenya here. I ask us to stand, please. The one who knows. Zinaza, zinaza, zinaza, zinaza, zinaza. Thank you, thank you. We can return to our seats. Thank you, thank you for welcoming us, Honorable. I ask us to return to our seats so that we continue with the schedule of the day. We want school children who were with a song to come and entertain us while the president goes and sits. Where students who. Thank you. Our children here have a good poem. Thank you, the time is yours, go there in front. Kenyatta, Kenyatta, Kenyatta, Kenyatta. Yujina, yujine, komandoe, komandoa, madkare. Madakarua. Kenyatta tosha, Kenyatta tosha, madakarua tosha, madakarua tosha, toshajosha. By name I am called Trazilahisa from Luhuna Primary School here in Trans-Nzoia County and I have brought you a poem, will you enjoy it? Huru, eh, hurwa Kenyatta, eh, Kenyatta, madakaroa, eh, Mada kwa komandoe, komandoa. By name I am called Linda Hisa from Luhuna Primary School, Trans-Nzoia, we have a poem. Kasongo alikoti alipoitwa kotini alipiga magoti na kumvulia gavana koti kotini. Mi naitwa Mlza nitambukusu nimetoka trans, mtaa wa mitume. Sisi hapa kwetu si rap kibu kuhusu mif hapa kwanza kwenye usa ju. Atakupiga ut mara mar, nimepigwa na nani, huyo komandoya. Yaupenda kuongea balasaki kimaneno. Juzi nilikuta kasongo ameng'oa na meno, huyo kasongo hana upendo ni madharaunda, amejaza tu kwa mdomo. Kasongo uache madharau. Twasema uache madharau. M walalon hapa Kenya uache madharau. Twasema uache madharau. Ladies and gentlemen, this is our story, our story of Trans-Nzoia County. To you, our sweet sweet governor, we love you, respect you, we salute you, our sweet sweet governor. We like to be pilot, engineer, president, and of a member of parliament like them. Natembea, natembea, tunakuja mbele zako tukisema ni asante. Shika bibilia kwa mkono wa kulia, usije ukalie kama kaunti zikilia. Wacha, wacha, wacha kusoma lebo. Natembea ni mninga, hawezi enda jela. Akienda jela atarudi na mapesa, kama sio pesa ama neno lake mungu po. Walipomtishia anatembea, walidani atashindwa, kumbe bendera yake injili iende mbele. M atatembea, atarudi. Amejifalia vazi nyeupe ya majeshi, wenye dhambi watapeperushwa chini chini. Wasiona dhambi watapeperushwa juu juu. Juu shaba shebe shukran thankeng. Liquitika mafako mrembo. Makofi kwa watoto, makofi mazuri kwa watoto wetu. Thank you so much, that amongst the talent ambaye tuko naye hapa kutoka shimo la tewa. Asante, Asante. Karibu mwenzangu Keli. Wakati huu kwa heshima nitamkaribisha tena waziri Eugene. Karibu ili uendelee na ratiba. Thank you. Welcome mheshimiwa. Asante. Asante. Tuendelee, tusiendelee. Tuendelee, tusiendelee. Sasa mgeni wetu wa heshima amefika na vile nilikuwa nimewaeleza hapo mbeleni, sherehe ya leo ni tofauti. Tumekuwa tunakuwa na sherehe ya ukumbusho kila mwaka hapa. Mwisho ulikuwa mwaka wa 2011. Tulikuja kwa boma hili kwa ukumbusho wa marehemu na aliyekuwa mgeni wetu wa heshima 2011, wakati huo alikuwa deputy prime minister na minister wa finance na jina lake ni Uhuru Mwigai Kenyatta. Siku ya leo, nina furaha isiyo na kifani kumkaribisha mheshimiwa Uhuru kwa boma hili, kumkaribisha hapa Trans-Nzoia na eneo la Western Kenya akiwa rafiki mkubwa wa familia hii na familia ya Mlembale na watu wa Western Kenya. Wakati huo, your excellency, ulipokuja ulikuja ukazindua shule in honor of Michael Wamalwa Kijana. Hiyo shule iko hapa shimo la Tewa. Na sasa nakumbusha watu wa Shimoo wale hamuelewi historia ya Michael Wamalwa Memorial School ya shimo la Tewa. Mwanzilishi wa hiyo shule ni mheshimiwa Uhuru Kenyatta na alipokuja hapa alitupa pesa kuanzisha ile blok ya kwanza ya shule hiyo. Leo tuna furaha shule imekuwa na mwenye shule amerudi. Niliambiwa kuna principal hapa, sijui principal wa Mara ya kijana kama ako hapa, kama hayuko atakuja baadaye. Kwa hivyo huyo. Madam, sisi tulikuwa tumekaribisha wageni lakini sababu wewe ndio mwenye shule na mwenye shule amefika kwa dakika moja, umkaribishe. Asante sana. Our former president, honorable Uhuru Mwigai Kenyatta, all the protocol observed. I can see mheshimiwa Kalonzo Msioka, I can see Mr. Matiangi, I can see the other officials. I stand here as the principal of the Michael Wamalwa Kijana Memorial Secondary School which was founded by you to welcome you back and I want to remind you that the school you started has grown so greatly. And we still look forward to your support now that you are here. I have written a small speech and a small request which I ask for your permission so that I can hand to him. I make, I'm told to make the request. Our school has grown but we do not have a perimeter wall. It is bordering the Shimolatewa informal settlement and many times when the parents they are being chased by the police because of illegal brew they run through the school compound and they destabilize learning. We also have our students who are very active in cocurricular activities but they do not have a school bus. Our school bus is on its toes. So we also request honorable and all the honorables here to please grant us a school bus. Asante. Asante sana. Tukipata hiyo fence hiyo shule itakuwa hiyo shule itakuwa boarding na wanafunzi wetu wataenda mbele. Tuko na wale wanaenda university from those humble beginnings but tunatarajia ya kwamba tutafanya vizuri zaidi ikawa tutapata usaidizi wako. Asante sana mheshimiwa, very much. Thank you. Thank you. Sasa kando na shule ambayo mheshimiwa rais alianzisha, leo pia amerudi hapa kuzindua kitabu in honor of his late friend and brother Michael Wamalwa Kijana. Imechukua muda mrefu miaka 23, wakati nimemuomba aje aweze kuzindua kitabu hiki aweke sahihi, alikuwa America na akaniambia niko ng'ambo kidogo lakini nikifika Kenya niletee kitabu niweke sahihi na akasema sitaweka tu sahihi, mimi mwenyewe nitakuja Kitale nizindue kitabu cha ndugu yangu. Na wakati amefika mimi nikaenda kumuona Ishaweri nikampelekea kitabu akaweka sahihi. Lakini sababu mimi ni mwanasheria nilitaka witness ambaye mkiona sahihi ya Uhuru Kenyatta kwa kitabu mtajua hiyo ni original yake, nikaita rafiki yangu Stephen Kalonzo Msioka. Tukaenda na yeye hadi Shaweri na tukaona mheshimiwa akiweka kitabu sahihi. Kwa hivyo heshima ambayo ametupa yeye mwenyewe amekuwa Adis Ababa kule Ethiopia amefika usiku karibu masaa nane. Lakini amesema sababu ya heshima ya marehemu Wamalwa Kijana ingawa amechoka ako na homa, amesema lazima mwenyewe akuje Kitale azindue hiki kitabu. Heshima si heshima jamani. Sasa kwa heshima kubwa, nilitaka sote tusimame na tumkaribishe aje azindue kitabu hiki. Your excellency, I humbly request you to come and do the honors of launching this book ya Kijana. Asante sana, Kevin K. Tafadhali, tafadhali. Welcome, welcome, welcome our guests, we love you with a heart of love. DJ, DJ, in a count of three, one. Where are the applause? Good ones, gentlemen. Welcome, welcome, welcome our guests, we love you with a heart of love. Thank you, didama. Thank you, did your excellency. With a lot of humility. You can hold one copy for a photo then the principals will have another copy for a group photo. Mheshimiwa ni Wamwalwa, kindly you can lead the exercise. I ask those. Relax, relax, relax, relax, relax, relax. Uh, huru baba yetu. I ask you to return to your seats. Continue, continue. The whole assembly, let it see how the celebration is going on. Kindly allow the rest of the audience to view what is going on. I ask the journalists please. Citizens also want to see what is happening there. Thank you. Leader DAPK, mheshimiwa Eugene Wamalwa. After the photo you can guide our chief guests and the principals back to their. Truly today, when they said. I ask the journalists please, let us have an arrangement and order. Kindly allow order the media please. Thank you. The book of Honorable Hayati Wamalwa Kijana has been launched today. And in a special way, on behalf of the Wamalwa family, I thank you very much His Excellency the fourth president Uhuru Kenyatta for the honors you have done today in launching this book. Also, those who will get a copy, the page of.
You will get the fourth president and his signature explaining the journey he and Wamalwa had traveled. Many of you might not know this, but today you will learn things you perhaps didn't know. This fourth president had asked the late Wamalwa to be his running mate, but unfortunately, he was late and found that Mzee Mwai Kibaki had already taken him and he had agreed to be his deputy. This is in this book. There are many things, some of which you didn't know, that besides them being friends, the first wife of the late Wamalwa, Gadhoni Mngee, was the daughter of Dr. Njoroge Mahe and was the niece of the late Jomo Kenyatta. So Uhuru and Wamalwa's friendship was not just political. They also knew each other through kinship. They were called Adhoni or Wadhoni? Adhoni. And when they met, they would say 'Garehitau'. Now you see how they used to walk together. So if you read this book, you will learn a lot about his journey. And the people who are here, who traveled with him, explain how he struggled a lot during Moi's time, in 1997 when he tried to be president, they didn't listen to him and Raila Odinga. They met at various hotels until the Kanu elders started asking what this woman was doing. Raila was there and he came with Kalonzo Musyoka, Professor George Saitoti, and Mudavadi. They came on a journey that included Professor Saitoti and Raila Odinga, who have left us, but there is a survivor called Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka. That journey and how they succeeded, and also how there was a guy who was defeated, Kibaki, and later came to join him and form a government. Another one is in the opposition. We are opponents, not enemies. Zero-sum politics we are seeing in the Republic of Kenya. The way national unity can be achieved is by people setting aside tribal and personal differences. Before the end, so let me not say much, I want to give them a chance to come and greet you. But besides the NA team that won, we have the Wopika team until the food was ready. He is professionally a doctor, a doctor of politics and coalition building, he is called Dr. Noah Wekesa. Among them also is the one who was very close to Wamalwa and brought Kibaki and Ngilu together, he is called Muskarikombo. Kombo is still alive. He is still surviving and he knows what they did with Ngilu and Kibaki to succeed. I want to respectfully give Mzee Kombo a chance to welcome the fourth president and the respected leaders. Welcome, welcome, so you can speak to our people. It is very bad. So, Verik Mlembe, Mlembe, we Muumbo Mlembe, weazwa Mlembe, weo Mlembe, Mlimo, I am Muskarikombo, son of Nanspon. I will not say much because today we have come to the town of Bakokiwas to celebrate 23 years that have passed. So it is not my day to say much, just to welcome the leaders who have arrived here. When President Uhuru came here in 2011, we were together, and today we are together again. So I just want to thank you, Your Excellency. The things about this country that really annoy me are corruption. Corruption is a problem. And that is a sad story. That is a sad story. Wamalwa was one of the cleanest leaders in this country. That's why he died poor. He didn't take anyone's thing. He was not that kind of person. So when you are looking for a leader, you should look for someone who will not take anyone's thing. We did those things, and I'm glad Madam Ngilu is here to bring Wamalwa and Kibaki together. It took us one year. I was Wamalwa's spanner boy. Titus Mbathi was Charity's spanner boy, and Kit and others were Kibaki's spanner boys, and it took us one year to bring these people together. And Charity will confirm here, the day that Wamalwa and Charity told Kibaki we are leaving it for you was in my house. In my house. I know these things. I know these things. You as Kenyans, you are clear, even you can investigate this person. And those are the only things I wanted to say today. And I thank each one of you who has come to the celebration of Wamalwa's anniversary. Where are the applause for our old man? As you can see, the weather has changed. We have many leaders here, including my deputy, the honorable Wafula, who worked very closely with the late Wamalwa. We also have our MCA here, led by their speaker. I will ask the speaker to introduce them, and then I will bring a friend of Wamalwa to greet you, and I will bring the leaders to greet you so that our respected guest can greet us before this rain. And the weather must also be a reason for the plane to release us early. Speaker, please introduce the honorable members. Our chief guest, His Excellency Uhuru Mwigai Kenyatta, and all the guests who have managed to come here to celebrate Mike's anniversary. Praise the Lord. I've been given a very simple task to introduce MCAs. MCAs, come here, let me introduce you. Welcome. Everyone stand up. This one standing in front of us wearing a blue suit is the honorable... welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome MCAs here. Ah, His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, this beautiful lady who is with us is called the honorable Lubano. She is our first MCA and is the chairperson of the health committee. She is a very hard worker. Next is the honorable Jamanuru, chairman of the budget committee in our Trans-Nzoia county, and the honorable Wanabisi. The next one is the honorable Alfred Weswa, we usually call him Mugabe, four times and I see signs he might get a fifth one, he is the MCA for Serend. Then we have the honorable Kutitila, our chairman of the finance committee, and he is the MCA for Endu, and he wants to be the MP for Kiminini constituency. Ah, then I have the honorable Unjiri from DAP. Welcome, honorable. And finally, I have the honorable Cheloti, who is our minority leader under DAP party. Welcome. May you be blessed. Let me see the applause for Mike. His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, welcome, we love you on behalf of our Trans-Nzoia county. Welcome, thank you. Thank you, speaker, for keeping time. The rain has arrived. I want to respectfully invite my big sister Charity Ngilu to bring our respected guest. She is the one who traveled with Wamalwa and Kibaki to invite the chief guest to greet us. Honorable Charity, please bring the guest of honor. Thank you so much, my young brother, the honorable Eugene Wamalwa. Leaders, Your Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, leaders, Your Excellency Kalonzo Musyoka. Leaders who have arrived here today, this day to remember and celebrate our very good friend, the honorable Michael Kijana Wamalwa. Remembering him today, the honorable Michael was a different kind of a person. I can say it's like he came from heaven, and it's because of the work he did and how he led Kenya, he truly was a person who had a vision to help Kenya. In the year 1992, we all entered the fray to remove Moi from leadership because we were tired of the Kanu rule. We all struggled, but we didn't remove him. In 1997, we came together. We said each of us has a party, has people, has slogans, and we can, each of us has a song. But in 1998, we looked back and saw how foolish we were because we had the numbers, but we lost, and we started to lick our wounds and the Kenyans'. In 2002, in 2001, we started to come together, and I asked the honorable Mwai Kibaki, leader of the Democratic Party, the honorable Wamalwa, leader of Ford Kenya, and I was the leader of the Social Democratic Party, and I said if we go the way we went in 1997, we will eat the same thing we ate in 1997, and only a fool repeats the same mistake. The first mistake you can be forgiven, but the second one you can't be forgiven. We said let's sit and drink tea. We went to drink tea. The only problem I had among them, the two of them, we drank tea every morning, and no one was coming with a card and money at that time they were leaving, so I was the one paying for the tea. Until I said even I will start, I am tired of paying for tea. As if that was not enough, insults started, insults asking what a woman and two men are doing in a hotel. But I was so fed up with being in the opposition. It's not easy to be in the opposition. They knew it. I know it. People knew it. And we were just getting people saying please leaders, unite and give us one person. And we agreed to walk together. And God was on our side. In 2002, things happened between His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta and His Excellency Moi, I don't know what war they had there. Between myself, Wamalwa, and Kibaki, the honorable Kalonzo, the honorable Raila Odinga, God rest his soul, the honorable George Saitoti, God rest his soul, Mudavadi among others, they came and gave us a lot of strength, they said now Kanu is going home. Your Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, sorry we did that to you, but now you are here, and I want to say join us, let's redeem Kenya. We must do that. And this is not a game. And this is not a game. This is going to be tough for all of us. And each one of us, these leaders you see here, each one of them, like it was then, the honorable Wamalwa, I want to say here, he is the one I wanted to be president of Kenya. I didn't want the honorable Kibaki, we had sat and said we don't want this one, but the honorable Wamalwa, we sat down and he said no, we will agree on one, give him, he has the skills, he has the experience, and the honorable Wamalwa also had the same qualities and was very intelligent, his eloquence, sometimes when he was speaking and he finished, we were looking for a dictionary to see what he had said. That was the honorable Wamalwa Kijana. But we continued every day uniting and talking and having friendship as before, all of us, and I speak in front of these great leaders, from that corner you see the honorable Matiang'i, followed by the honorable Eugene Wamalwa, then His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, next we see the honorable JB Muturi, the speaker, next we see my sister Martha Karua. All of them are good candidates for presidency. All of them. All of them. And they are very good. Even that Sifuna is also good. But may I stand here? The honorable Kalonzo Musyoka is very good. All of you, you are looking, you are looking here, I want to say, the honorable Martha Karua, the honorable JB Muturi, the honorable Kalonzo Musyoka, the honorable Wamalwa, if they go individually after 2027, each one of us will start to lick our wounds. And Kenyans will feel we have wronged them greatly. I have done this with Muskarikombo, with Noah Wekesa and other elders. I want to give myself some responsibility today to revisit the 2002 work we did so that we can bring all these leaders together and they agree. Will you give us that chance to do that? Let's do that. How many say let's do that? And people with all their strength, and you saw a very good government, a very beautiful government led by the honorable Mwai Kibaki. And I want to say this vice president seat was for Michael Kijana Wamalwa until now it is empty. That seat needs to be occupied, and we have people to occupy it, and his young brother is here. This is a very good young man. This man has taken absolutely from his brother, and I want to say time has come. Time has come. Let's know what we need most, and as I finish, it is trust amongst these leaders. All of us must trust together. And the last thing we agreed on is to stop fighting each other, we are children of one mother to redeem Kenya. And that is what I want us to do, all of us, with these few words I say, God rest Michael Wamalwa in eternal peace. We remember him. Kenya loves him very much, and this book says it is tall if the leaders meeting here have the humility and the kind of leadership that Michael had, Kenya would not be having any problems. God bless each one of you. Thank you very much. It is now my singular honor to invite His Excellency the chief guest, Kenyatta. Wake me up, let me play slowly. Friends, wake me up. Wake me up, let me play slowly. Wake me up. Please wake me up. Wake me up slowly, wake me up. Leaders, family of Wamalwa, my colleagues from Kitale. Mirembe, Mirembe, Mirembe Bosi, Mirembe, Mirembe Gandi. How are you? How are you? Kitale, are you there? We are here. Thank you very much. I apologize first for being late, as you heard from my brother, I had traveled to Ethiopia. Sorry, even my voice is gone. But you can hear me, right? Thank you for your welcome. We are here today because of respect and to remember our big brother, Michael Kijana Wamalwa. Michael Kijana Wamalwa was a leader of our nation of Kenya. But he was also my friend, he was a person we respected. We are here today to remember him. We are here to remember him, but also to remember the deeds he did for the Kenyan community. All of us Kenyans. Thank you. Kijana Wamalwa was a person who, even though he was a politician, was what the whites call a gentleman. He was not a person of war. He had his word, according to his vision and his right, and he had no war with anyone. As you heard from the honorable Charity Ngilu, even though we were friends, we were on different political sides, but our political difference was not enmity. And as you heard, they were... thank you, wait a little. As you heard, here we were on the side of Kanu and Moi, and we had planned to win that election, even I had asked Mike, come, let's do it with you too. He told me, sir, I am on the other side, but he did not betray me the secret of how they would come with strength. And friends, they came with strength, they chased us away with Moi, we were told to go and rest, and I obeyed the order because that order was from the leaders, and who are our leaders? It is you, the citizens of the Republic of Kenya. And we obeyed the order, and they took the reins and continued with the leadership of the nation. But we had no enmity. I was the leader of the opposition, he was the leader on the government side. Our offices were very close, near the parliament, and we used to visit each other's offices, we knew each other's situation, we talked about national issues, and we continued together. And I am here for that respect, and while we are here for that respect, let's not forget also that Kijana Wamalwa and the leaders sitting behind me, like Charity, Martha Karua, and others, sacrificed everything to fight for democracy in our nation, the freedom of Kenyans to have the right to choose the leaders they want. And I am here today to stand for that right. No one can take away that right that was fought for with sweat and blood and say now we don't have the right to stand anywhere a person wants. Do we understand? We are a democratic society, and those democratic ideals we fought for hard by the man amongst others who we honor today. And we cannot accept to go back. Will you accept to go back? If it is to ask for votes, let's ask for peace. The citizens have the knowledge to know. If they say they want Kalonzo, it's Kalonzo. If they say they want Ruto, it's Ruto. If they say they want Matiang'i, it's Matiang'i. If they say they want Sifuna, it's Sifuna. Friends, friends, be careful. I don't want to be called a sponsor, I don't want many things. I have said that the choice is for whom? The choice is for whom? And there is no need to force any Kenyan to go to this side or that side. Kenyans will choose for themselves. And I ask political leaders, let's go to the citizens in peace. Let's preach what we have in peace. These things of preventing others from holding meetings, from doing what, from doing what, is taking Kenya back. And we want to move forward. If you want votes, ask, ask with humility. The citizens will give you or deny you. Even I asked and was denied, I came back again, I asked and was given. Or how is it? And people should not say that what I am saying, I am interfering in politics. I don't need any seat. Do we understand? I thank God for the years he has given me to be a leader, and I thank Kenyans for giving me that opportunity. This opportunity now is for others, and Kenyans themselves will decide who it is. But they should know that you know everyone can say they want, but God chooses only one person. If they want good, they should try to find a way to unite, walk together and respect each other. Isn't it true? Have we agreed? So because of the weather, and there are still others, maybe you want to hear their voices. I say Kitale. May God bless you. May God continue to protect the late, the late Kijana Wamalwa, continue to protect his family, and continue to hold the nation of Kenya. And you Kenyans, do not accept to be fought. Do not accept to be fought. Unite and be as one thing. One thing. May God bless you and protect you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Shall we continue or not, friends? Or are you tired? Now we bring the honorable Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka. Thank you. Wake me up, wake me up slowly, wake me up. Friends, wake me up. Wake me up, let me play slowly, wake me up. Please wake me up, let me play slowly, wake me up. Please wake me up. Thank you. Kitale, you are holding me. Thank you. The fourth president, brother Uhuru Mwigai Kenyatta, family of the late Kijana Wamalwa, led by our brother Eugene Wamalwa, all residents of the Mulembe Nation, Mrembe Bosi, Mrembe Handi, Merembe Mia, Merembe TE. Please listen to me because of the rain. I knew Kijana Wamalwa when he was the vice president of the eighth administration, and I managed to be in the tenth. I was in the team that made the honorable Uhuru Kenyatta the surviving victim. And today, today, remembering my brother Wamalwa, a very learned person, he graduated from Cambridge University, London School of Economics, and he became a leader who sacrificed, and he wrote this book which is written 'Put in Kenya'. So the lesson we have is that one. If you look at that picture in the schedule, those of us who are still here are Charity and me, but we also have Mzee Mudavadi who was with us, in fact, was the convener, and also Kipruto Arab Kirwa. So the time has come, the time is now, let's ensure that in these remaining 351 days, that this leader who is not here, who feels sick every time he hears the name of Uhuru Kenyatta, we make him one. How many say he is one? How many say he is one? Are you ready? Because Uhuru has the right to speak as he has spoken here, without being oppressed, because he has shown leadership, he has said clearly he doesn't want any seat. So Mr. Ruto, get ready, if it is me, Kalonzo, it will be man to man. He doesn't have to go. So we are ready to form one team. One team, we cannot dare to disrespect what the majority of Kenyans in this country expect. Now my brother, Wamalwa Kijana loved Shakespeare very much. I want to stop there by trying to honor him. I want to remind him of one of the Shakespearean tragedies called Hamlet. And it is a time like this, a time of the English there, but here in Kenya, I can say my brother Kijana Wamalwa, time is out of joint, and we were born to get it right, to make it right, and we want to ensure that if you continue sleeping and resting, know that this team to make Mr. Ruto one time is a team that will not go back. And so the time is now, how many believe the time is now? The time is now. Let's unite all or how? Thank you very much, God bless you. I call JB Muturi. I think because of the weather, we are trying to see how we can shorten. Thank you. Friends, wake me up. Ah, to the family of our brother who left us, the late Michael Kijana Wamalwa, leaders who have arrived today, led by the former president of Kenya, the honorable Uhuru Kenyatta, residents of Trans-Nzoia and Kenyans in general, Mrembe. Ah, mine will be very few because of the weather, and I would like my other brothers to also speak. Mine is to say this, the book that was launched today, which shows the journey the late Michael Wamalwa traveled in leadership and the lessons he has taught us, with that heart of self-sacrifice, that what he wants is good for Kenyans. We want to say today that we are ready to emulate that level of sacrifice, ignore personal ambition, country first as the book says, and therefore I commit, I commit that I will be among the very first people to say one united candidate, William Ruto, to ensure that William Ruto will be one. With those few words, God bless you. Shall we continue or not? We bring the iron lady, Martha Wangari Karua. Please wake me up. Please wake me up. People of Trans-Nzoia, Mrembe. Thank you very much, I will be very short. First, why Michael Wamalwa Kijana, Kibaki, and Ngilu succeeded is because of unity. The second thing is loving the country and saying country first, our demands last. And I want to ensure that we, all of us here, will put the demands of Kenyans first and others last, and we will bring one candidate. But as citizens, let's agree, the one who will be given, that is what we will all follow. I would like to say, let me say other things tomorrow, things are one time, things are... thank you. Now we want to bring the honorable Dr. Fred Matiang'i. Ah, the honorable retired president, and the leader of my Jubilee party, citizens of Trans-Nzoia, how are you? How are you? Because of the weather, I join the others who have congratulated my brother Eugene Wamalwa for organizing this and saying that by the grace of God, we will have the opportunity to cooperate with that teacher at that school to do those things he asked. And thirdly, that we take the lessons we have learned from our brother Kijana Wamalwa who passed away, because the greatest thing about Kijana Wamalwa is that he was not a person of insults and a person of violence. At this time of politics, we have seen many things, and we continue to ask leaders to continue respecting the citizens as we have been advised by our other leaders and our elders, let's unite together because we are one, so that we bring change and development to our great nation of Kenya. We will have another opportunity to visit here and walk and talk, but I join the others who are saying let's all cooperate together to bring change as one team. Thank you very much, and may God bless you. Now we want to bring the young man PK Salasia to introduce his fellow MPs who are here. Welcome, PK. Thank you. First, the man of the moment, truly. I want to take this opportunity to say thank you very much, His Excellency, the honorable Uhuru Kenyatta, for coming to stand with us today, and our leaders, our principals all led by His Excellency Kalonzo Musyoka, the honorable mama, Madam Martha Karua, and we also have Ngilu, our mother, Her Excellency Ngilu. I want to take this opportunity first to thank, and also our honorable Matiang'i, to thank you very much for coming to stand with the honorable Eugene Wamalwa, and I want to thank the honorable Eugene Wamalwa, you have stood with the legacy of Kijana Wamalwa. I want to say one thing, that the leaders here in Trans-Nzoia, respect your leader who is called Eugene Wamalwa, and where Eugene Wamalwa will be, that is where I will be, right? And I have also asked the honorable Wamalwa, you came all the way to Mumias to help me, and that's why I have said I will stand with you, up and down, where you will be, that is where I will be. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Another MP is called what? The honorable Nzengu. Welcome, honorable Nzengu from Ukambani. So, with respect to the former president of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, and all the leaders who have arrived. How are you? How are you again? So, I am called Nzengu, I am the MP for Mwingi North for the honorable Kalonzo Musyoka. And I ask these leaders, because the leaders have spoken, I want to say just one thing. I ask these leaders who are here to unite and redeem this Kenya. This Kenya since Uhuru Kenyatta left leadership has been completely ruined. So I ask the leaders please unite together, give us one president to redeem this Kenya. Thank you very much. Please. Thank you. Now because of the rain, we will break for lunch. There is enough food. On this side there are tents. Let's eat lunch while the rain stops.
