He said friends I am very happy to be here
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Explanation:
To make the speech indirect, one must get it out of the quotation marks and change the subject from 1st person (I, we) or 2nd person (you) to 3rd person (he, she, it, they). Note that this affects the Verb Conjugation.
To proceed further it is necessary to determine the temporal and spatial Deixis of the situation:
Usually the speech that is being reported took place at a time and location different from the narrator’s, thus one would ⑴ choose one Tense (grammar) back in time from the original statement and ⑵ adjust any Adverbs indicating time and place, e. g. here → there: “He said (that) he was happy to be there (that day¹).”
[¹Depending on the context the adverb indicating time can be omitted because the Verb Tense changed.]
If the situation took place just now (Present Tense) next to the narrator who may be a Language Interpreter the tense wouldn’t change: “He said (that) he is happy to be here today.”