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BBI could still haunt politicians ahead of polls

The fate of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) finally comes to the fore on Tuesday when the Supreme Court of Kenya (SCK) starts its hearings. Whether or not it’s fate is sealed, the BBI ghosts could linger on to the polling day and even shape the presidential campaign.   

Even after initial setbacks by the High Court and Court of Appeal rulings in May and August, last year, President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, have continued to send signals on the possible revival of the BBI process or implementation of its proposals, irrespective of the initiative’s fate at the hands of the Judiciary.

While Raila has maintained that “reggae (BBI process) is on half time break”, Uhuru has particularly been critical of those opposed to the initiative. On Thursday, while hosting dinner for a section of legislators at State House, Nairobi, the president took a swipe at unnamed individuals for “demonising” the BBI as well as the Political Parties Bill.        

According to Murang’a County MP, Sabina Chege, there remains a lot of interest in BBI among the residents of Mt Kenya region, owing to a host of their interests in representation and allocation of funds from the exchequer to constituency and county kitties, which remain unfulfilled to this day after the initiative stalled in the courts.

Revisiting BBI

Nonetheless, the politician says whichever way the ruling by the SCK goes, the people of Mt Kenya region alongside other Kenyans who value the BBI proposals will hold to account those opposed to the initiative for standing in the way of the people.

“Time might not be on our aside now, since we are focused on the upcoming polls, but we shall remind our people who our enemies are and urge them to vote wisely in August, so we can have another opportunity to revisit the BBI agenda and access the goodies therein,” Sabina told this writer.

Source: The Standard 





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