Dearest Baaba,
It is the 23rd of May once again! We would have been celebrating your 74th birthday! We still miss you and think about you a lot.
I still remember my last visit to Jinja exactly a month before you left us when I decided to ask you how you managed to make it in life given your childhood circumstances. Your answer was simply...'God picked me.' You told me of how your cousin came and asked your Father for a child to educate and he chose you. How you were one of eight boys who were selected from your Junior school to go to Busoga College Mwiri. How you ended up in Nairobi University where all of your lot were clamoring for mechanical engineering but one of your lecturers who had taken keen interest in you, convinced you to do Civil Engineering! Of course, we all know where this degree led you... Each time I remember that story, I agree with you that God indeed picked you and you were a truly blessed person. You were an outlier and everything you committed to do...succeeded!
Today we thank God for the many sacrifices you made for us. For going over and beyond for not only us your immediate family but for those who God placed under your care. We are grateful for the opportunities we still enjoy simply because we are your children. We thank you for the stable home you gave us and for loving Maama and giving her a life that she still looks back on with nostalgia.
We thank God for holding us together since you left us in 2017 and trust Him for the many more years to come. We love you and miss you. Continue resting in peace our dearest Baaba!
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