[martin77]

"My Fellow brothers, today I stand here in your beautiful town of Eldoret with a heavy heart. My brothers and sisters, a great wrong has been done to this nation, a man, no, a group of men, have decided to make a mockery of our beloved land, to mock us, and to sneer at all the blood and tears that have been shed to bring us where we are today. For all our efforts, the sun, the rain that we braved to make our choice of leadership known, has all been thrown away, cast aside like a useless rag. because these men have put it on themselves to impose leadership on us.

These men did this for themselves, because they are selfish and because they have long gone past the point where they care what happenes to this country or to its people. Today i stand here, with this little child in my arms. She is not the enemy. Neither are those women huddled there in that police station. The ones who died in Naivasha yesterday are not the enemy either.

The enemy is known. The men who did this, we know them. they are in Nairobi. And there we will march and get our country back. For ourselves and for this little child that I hold in my arms. This is our country, and no one will ever divide us. Our destiny is one, and we shall march relentlessly towards it, flatteneing anything thats stands in our path. Bullets, teargas, batons, they will never stop us. because we are Kenyans, from the shores of the Indian ocean to those of lake victoria. Our nation is one and forever so we shall remain. and Justice will always be our shield and defender.

[martin77]

Ida Odinga (God bless her great heart) did this in Kisumu, holding a frightened little kikuyu girl in her arms. But it was too little too late. Historians will always wonder what would have been had Raila done that in the first terrible days of the violence