This afternoon in Ugenya, emotions rent the air as mourners wore mixed feelings of happiness and sadness at the same time. A fallen comedian is mourned and celebrated at the same time.
The political class was present as well as their counterpart, the comedian one, who in their diversity and ethnicity poured condolences to one of their colleagues whom they not only worked with but lived with through the years that he walked in this world.
Eric who changed ranks as a mourner as well as Mcee was saddened by the way the nation was driven to the point of asking Raila to teach him his ways of how to conduct protests so that they last at least in the evening, unlike his, which concludes within 2 hours because of being arrested.
When he was invited to speak (Raila), he used his native language but I was able to get a few of what he was talking about.
“This part of the world is called Ugenya, Eric stop ‘vigelevigele’ we are in a burial ceremony, no need for that. I want to begin by greeting GenZs who are here, when you began your quest against the punitive Finance Bill, one of you, a youthful lady, sent me a video telling me, ‘baba tulia, achia sisi, si tutapambana na huyu jamaa’.
Thank you wherever you are. I want to say that 60% of Kenya’s population belongs to youths who are 35 years and below, therefore you have to listen to them. You went into the campaign with hashtags of mama mboga, bodaboda, mtu was chini (hustler) and there is absolutely nothing you have done for them, ‘si iyo ni upuzi’.
GenZs hoyee, three institutions are critical in this nation, Executive, Parliament and Judiciary, MPs should be at the forefront when things are not working out, they can pass a vote of no confidence to the president hence getting rid of him.
Lastly, I was recently called to participate in the affairs of our continent, and I want to remind you it is a duty to serve our continent better, ‘nikiitwa…ntaitika, ntakwenda kupambana kuliweka Afrika nafasi nzuri’.”
He burst into a song which simply talks about serving his continent when called upon.