''I HEARD MBADI ASKING WHERE IS RAILA NOW..'' MAMA IDA ODINGA FINALLY REACTS TO CS MBADI'S REMARKS!

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Today is a very unique day.

[00:00:04]This distinguished day when we are visited by professors and academicians from two great universities.

[00:00:22]And they are all here or both of them are here to honor none other than our beloved Raila Amolo Odinga.

[00:00:38]The Vice-Chancellor of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University, Professor Emily Akuno, the the Professor Levi Obonyo from Daystar University.

[00:00:55]All distinguished guests who are here and all students uh university students who are here, you are all welcome.

[00:01:08]We thank you for being here because being here uplifts our spirit.

[00:01:21]Raila died some 7 months ago, but still it feels like it's just last yesterday.

[00:01:35]Therefore, when we see you here, you are reminding us of very fond memories.

[00:01:41]I, in particular, I knew the man for more than a half a century.

[00:01:51]That's not a short time.

[00:01:55]And we were married for 52 years.

[00:02:03]Long before most of you I see here were born.

[00:02:09]Maybe all of you.

[00:02:12]You must have been there.

[00:02:15]But we still here every day. There's no particular day I'll switch on to listen to the news without hearing his name being mentioned.

[00:02:30]Every day, doesn't matter what time of the day.

[00:02:34]And I like what the Daystar University is doing.

[00:02:38]They are planning even a bigger thing in memory of Raila Amolo Odinga.

[00:02:46]Thank you very much for doing that.

[00:02:54]Sometimes in our early days we used hear much about the history.

[00:03:06]But this home as it is now, as you see it, it is a historical home. Home. It carries a lot of history.

[00:03:16]And I think that is why many students and many scholars and even people from outside Kenya, outside Africa, they come here just to find out what is it that this home holds.

[00:03:32]Right on my right on my right is the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Mausoleum.

[00:03:38]There lies a very great man was called Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.

[00:03:45]He did a lot for this country.

[00:03:48]He's well known in this country and beyond.

[00:03:51]And those who come, don't forget to go there.

[00:03:56]Right on my right, behind us here, is the Jaramogi Mausoleum.

[00:04:03]It is a living history.

[00:04:07]You better see it.

[00:04:08]If you come to this home and you don't visit the museum mausoleum, you don't visit the museum, you would have missed something.

[00:04:21]Physically, they are gone.

[00:04:24]And I had sometimes I hear people asking, "Where are they now?"

[00:04:31]I don't want to answer them, but I will just remind them of what some scholars had said in history.

[00:04:42]In the book of Shakespeare, he says a very obvious thing, that no life lives forever.

[00:04:52]And the dead man rises up never.

[00:04:57]And that's how it would be. We all know that.

[00:05:01]But at the same time, in Professor Mbiti's book of the religions African religion studies, he says, that so long as people are remembering you, so long as even if you're dead, people are mentioning your name, he talks of the living dead.

[00:05:30]And when he talks of the living dead, I think he's talking about Raila, talking about Jaramogi, talking about those great people who have left us physically, but their spirit is here with us.

[00:05:48]Those are the living dead.

[00:05:50]So long as people remember you and mention your name, their spirit is with us.

[00:05:56]So, we are not worried.

[00:06:00]And uh sometimes I would say sometimes politicians get very excited because they think he's gone and they are for nothing.

[00:06:12]We learn from them.

[00:06:14]This history that they've left behind, they are the living dead.

[00:06:18]So, I don't want to say much, but welcome you.

[00:06:22]Thank you so much for coming.

[00:06:24]And thank you so much for being with us.

[00:06:30]Life continues.

[00:06:33]Many are born.

[00:06:36]Many grow.

[00:06:38]And many die. But life continues.

[00:06:44]Today I've seen so many students.

[00:06:47]I think most of them have come from Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University.

[00:06:53]But I've also seen people who have come as far as Makueni this morning.

[00:07:00]I've seen people who have come from other places.

[00:07:06]Yesterday I saw people who had come from Uganda, leadership in Uganda.

[00:07:11]So, basically, I would say we are the same.

[00:07:17]The feeling of our people is the same.

[00:07:21]And I thank them for coming because they keep on reminding us that the spirit of Raila Amolo Odinga is here with us.

[00:07:33]So, uh I'd like to ask those who are here and those who are coming, when you come, please just make sure that you sign that condolence book.

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[00:10:28]Thank you.

[00:10:30]Thank you. As Prophet Agnes will do a quick introduction before Professor Ombonya comes.