 Fellow citizens, on behalf of the First Lady, Putinta and our family, we wish to extend our profound gratitude and warmest wishes to you all this season. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Christmas is an important time for our community and our country. As a Christian nation, we hold deep, a deep conviction that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was born to love, to reconcile, and align us to the values and ideals of forgiveness, freedom, justice, peace, sharing, and unity throughout mankind. This Christmas, we once again thank God for watching over us as we rebuild our economy and institutions of governance in order to strengthen our democratic system and leave a peaceful and prosperous future for generations to come. We wish to take this opportunity at Christmas and New Year to extend our sincere thanks to our health workers, to first responders and emergency workers who put their lives on the front line through their self-acceptance, our security services, and our armed forces in peacekeeping missions in foreign territories and at home who protect us, the immigration services that man our ports of entry and exits, our farmers, our factory workers, our marketeers, our mothers, and the ordinary citizens truly, the ordinary citizens who all contribute to the well-being of our nation. We urge you all to continue working hard as we develop our country together. This Christmas, we urge you all to take time to visit the city and to extend the hand of support to the elder, to the differently-abled, the less fortunate, and indeed the orphaned. We are all called to be our brothers and sisters' keepers. We encourage you to dedicate some time to worship and thank the Lord God for His blessings this year. So let us close this message by quoting 2 verse 14, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill toward men. Our fellow citizens, we wish you and your families a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. As well as peace and prosperity in the year 2023. God bless us all. God bless our nations and you. I thank you.