Thank you very much. Thank you very much, mother, mother Aida Odinga, Rosemary. Thank you very much, I am grateful. Thank you. Let me start again by saying Mama Aida Odinga, Rosemary, Junior, Winnie, and the entire family of our late friend, our esteemed friend Raila Amolo Odinga. His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya, His Excellency William Samoei Ruto and First Lady Mama Rachel Ruto. How are the leaders of foreign countries and neighbors who have visited us to mourn with us, my fellow mourners? Hello again, thank you very much, we are here together as Kenyans to celebrate the life of our fellow Kenyan leader, my friend but I loved him like my brother, His Excellency Raila Amolo Odinga. As we have been told here, we knew him by different names, Agwambu, Jakom, Tinga, but as Kenyans from all corners, we all knew him and respected him as a father. And we are silent, father, because the honorable Raila Amolo Odinga loved his country Kenya more than anything else. His Excellency Raila Amolo Odinga was a father to all, he had no ethnicity and he loved the country and all Kenyans, and this testimony is shown by various friends who, when you went to visit him at his home, you would find friends there from every corner of our nation of Kenya. Raila loved you because of your vision. He loved you because of your thoughts. He loved you because of your actions. But not because of your race or ethnicity. Today Kenya has lost a leader. A leader whose democratic history in our nation of Kenya cannot be written without the name of Raila Amolo Odinga being number one. Kenya's history of defending human rights and the rights of all citizens cannot be written without the name of Raila Amolo Odinga being number one. The history of reconciliation and ensuring that the people at the grassroots level have the ability to lead and govern themselves and have leaders who address the problems of the people at the grassroots level cannot be written without the name of Raila Amolo Odinga being number one. In short, what can I say? I say this. Raila has left us physically, but in our hearts, in the spirit of Kenya, he will live on for years and years as we move forward, my friends. Raila loved peace. Raila loved the unity of our nation. Raila was happy to see Kenyans coming together, working together, and building their nation together. Raila was a defender of everyone's rights. Where he was seeing no justice, Raila was at the forefront to ensure that rights were achieved. And my colleagues, I tell you this, we remember the late Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi Odinga for defending the independence of our country. And every time we sing the national anthem we say we will protect our freedom with our blood and sweat. Today as we bid farewell to our father Raila Amolo Odinga, I also want us to pledge that we will not accept as Kenyans human rights, democracy and all those things that Raila advocated. We will not allow it to go back. We will not allow him to go backwards. We will move forward, respecting those rights for those of us who are left and those who have not been born. That is what our brother would like to see and that is the way to see his legacy as the leader of our nation. Colleagues, this is not a day of many things. I have come to mourn a friend and brother but I cannot end without saying that even though today we are sad and mourning, as Kenyans we must seize this opportunity because Raila could not have done what he did if he had been supervised by the powerful mother of labor, Mama Aida Odinga and her children Rosemary, Junior, Winnie and her entire family. To Kenyans, we thank you for giving us Raila to serve the country and by supporting him, he will have the strength to serve us all. My point is, my brother, let's go well, my friends, just a little bit, not a big deal. You know, sometimes after work when we're just sitting there, we're given a little something, because you're laughing. When I say something small, I say porridge and tea. But when we were chatting, we were wondering, you know, those old people who have gone, the Jaramogis, the Jomos, the Nkrumahs, the Mwalimu Nyerere family, what do you think they'd be talking about if they sat down? Oh, I was saying, you know, they talk about politics like us, they just look at us and these things of ours that are growing here, they laugh at us, he says, eh, but you know, I'm very keen to know, now my brother, you've gone before me, now I already know that you're talking to each other there and it's not that I'm in a hurry to come and reach you, but we still want to calm down, calm down a little, may God help us, but I know that when our time comes, you will be there to tell us the way to walk those roads there. Therefore, my brother, I pray to God to have mercy on you and may you rest in peace with your companions, knowing that we remember you and what you have left behind, we will continue to do so, and your family is now ours and we will continue to protect and cherish them and stand with them at all times. I say rest in peace brother, may God bless your family and give them comfort and strength, and may God continue to bless our Kenya, East Africa and Africa in general. Thank you very much, God bless you.
