President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila odinga have given in to pressure to allow some more changes in the final Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report.
Raila was inundated with demands for changes during the burial of former Committee of Experts chairman Nzamba Kitonga on Saturday November 7th.
At the burial in Kitui County, Kitui Woman Representative Irene Kasalu said Women Rep do not want to go to the Senate.
Kitui Senator Enock Wambua demanded that Mwingi be granted county status otherwise the BBI report would have a hard time sailing through in the region.
“We are prepared to make the compromise so that we can move forward. Two steps forward, one step backward. We are still advancing. What is at stake here is much more important,” Raila told mourners in Kitui.
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Deputy William Ruto is opposed BBI and has insisted that he will only support the document once his demands are put into consideration.
Raila however doesn’t want to appear to be backing down and wants the DP to make good his threat to oppose the document. The DP wants non-contested referendum while Raila and Uhuru’s team want Kenyans to have a final word on BBI through a contested referendum.
On Wednesday November 4th Uhuru came under pressure from governors to allow BBI to be altered during a meeting with the county bosses.
Council of Governors (CoG) chairman Wycliffe Oparanya said they were pushing for amendments on some sections touching on devolution.
“We had a meeting but we never concluded the issues. We have scheduled another meeting in Naivasha on Monday and Tuesday that will be attended by Uhuru and Raila,” said Oparanya.
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