- A seven-year-old girl named Serena Thomas from Victoria Primary School in Kisumu has touched the hearts of many with her emotional poem she wrote to the late Raila Odinga.
- In her song, Serena highlights Raila’s contribution in different generations, combining the purity of childhood with a strong call to protect the environment
- His simple but meaningful words remind us how the ODM leader’s relationship crossed the boundaries of age, politics, and time.
Raila Odinga he was eighty years old, but he touched people of all ages, young and old.
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Among the children he impressed was seven-year-old Serena Thomas from Victoria Primary School, Kisumu.
A child’s poem, a national reflection
Serena’s mother, Sophy Atieno, said TUKO.co.ke that despite the young age of his daughter, he already had a great love for the former prime minister.
“Raila is a household name. We talk about him here at home and even at school. He often sees him through the news,” he said.
The poem with emotion and pure balance, written by the winner of the Poetry English Solo Award Winner, is named ‘Why Now Father, The Lion!’
Sophy added that Serena wrote the poem herself because she wanted to make her hero smile in heaven.
“Father, you can’t go wrong.
With Baba, you can’t get tired.
From his fables.
Up to his interesting comments during football matches.
And a politician, sometimes, is impatient.”
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“Plant a tree for Father”
Serena, a Grade Two student, had seen her parents cry along with millions of Kenyans.
He didn’t understand politics well, but he understood love, grief, and inheritance.
His words, “The voice of the roaring lion of Africa, the real son of Africa,” they symbolize how even the smallest of hearts feel the loss of a person who impressed many generations.
In the last lines of her poem, Serena makes a gentle plea:
“As a lover of the environment, I would like everyone to plant trees, to remember the Father, God bless Kenya.”
It is a simple but serious call from a child, which is completely in line with Raila Odinga’s passion for environmental protection and clean energy.
Raila fan spends 3 days mourning on Majengo road
Elsewhere, a man from Majengo by the name of Jairo Lamenya turned a piece of road into a place of mourning in honor of Raila Odinga.
For three days, he endured rain, extreme cold, and surprised eyes from the public, but he refused to leave.
Lamenya explained that she wanted to go to Bondo to attend a private funeral, but she did not have the fare.
What you should know about Raila’s death
- Governor of Homa Bay, Gladys Wangaasked President William Ruto to approve the changing of the name of the Talanta Stadium to the name of the late Raila Odinga.
- Ruth Odinga he revealed that a day before he died, Raila told him to encourage ODM members to remain united and strong.
- During his speech at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Winnie Odinga he hinted at his desire to enter electoral politics in Kenya.
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