ODM party leader Raila Odinga says the collection of one million signatures which is expected to be submitted to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) together with the Building Bridges Initiative, will commence next week.
Speaking at his Capitol Hill offices Raila maintained that the window to making changes on the BBI report is already shut.
“We will be doing the launch of the signature collection sometimes next week. We want that exercise to be done as soon as possible so that the matter can be handed over to the electoral commission, and then we can move towards the next phase of a referendum,” he said.
“This matter, as already mentioned before, should be concluded by the latest April next year. That is where we are as far as BBI is concerned.”
Raila also said the draft BBI Bill will be ready “Very soon. And very soon is very soon.”
The Orange Democratic Movement leader hit out at a section of the religious leader who slammed the report saying “they’re entitled to their views, but we go by the views of the majority of our people”.
The former Premier added that only editorial issues will be considered adding that new views will not be entertained or included in the report.
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“People have had an opportunity to talk about those issues, two years now, the clergy themselves had an opportunity to express their views. This is a democratic society, they’re entitled to their views, but we go by the views of the majority of our people,” said Raila.
“We’re not going to bring in substantive new issues, these are basically editorial issues which are being captured. There are certain issues which probably had been mentioned but were not captured, they’re being added. That’s what we mean by ‘editorial’.”
