This archive report was first published on 2 November 2019.
Published on November 2, 2019, leaders from the Mt. Kenya region have continued to express their reservations over the content of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report.
They claim that the report will not have addressed critical issues of representation and equal distribution of resources, which they say are essential for the region's development.
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri, a leading figure in the opposition, stated that the constitutional change should be an all-inclusive process, not a self-preservation scheme to secure positions for certain leaders.
“Kusiwe na watu ambao wanataka kujianglia wenyewe, ati kama ni katiba inageuzwa inageuzwa kwasababu ya kabila fulani ama kwasababu ya watu fulani… ” said CS Kiunjuri.
The leaders from the populous Mount Kenya region have expressed their fears over murmurs that the report, was likely to recommend a parliamentary system of government.
They claim that the BBI report must address key issues, including inequality of the vote that they claim has seen some regions under-represented as compared to others despite disparities in population and that as a result, the affected areas get low allocation of resources under the devolved governance.
“Hatujasema hatutaki katiba kubadilishwa lakini tunataka ichunguzwe kabisa na iwekwe sawasawa…,” added Kiunjuri.
The leaders were speaking at the launch of a tree planting exercise in Laikipia County, and the same reservations were shared by the Inua Dada group who were in Turkana.
