This archive report was first published on 26 November 2019.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has received the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report at State House, Nairobi, from Task Force Chairman Yusuf Haji on November 26, 2019. The report was received on Tuesday afternoon, with ODM leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto in attendance.
According to a tweet from the State House, President Uhuru Kenyatta received the report from the initiative's task force led by Chairman Senator Yusuf Haji. The President will tomorrow present the report to Kenyans at the Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi.
Already, Jubilee and ODM legislators have invited selected people to attend the launch. The ODM party was even compelled to cancel the launch of its party headquarters in view of this development.
After the March 2018 rapprochement between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, the President and the ODM leader announced their plan to bury the rivalry through the formation of the Building Bridges Initiative.
The BBI task force was chaired by Senator Haji, who was deputised by Dr. Adams Oloo. Lawyer Paul Mwangi and Ambassador Martin Kimani were the joint secretaries of the task force team.
Some BBI critics even alleged that the President might have read the mood of the country and realised that the report would be rejected, hence the alleged reluctance to receive it.
