We will reject BBI if it has nothing for the common man, Duale says
National Assembly Majority leader Aden Duale has promised Kenyans that parliament will reject BBI if it will not be beneficial to the common man.
Speaking during appreciation ceremony at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi attended by the Deputy President, William Ruto, and other leaders, Duale said that all Kenyans will have a chance to look into the content of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) once the report is out and decide whether to reject or support.
Duale also said that parliament will reject if it will not serve the interests of the common mwananchi.
“On the the issue of BBI, as the President and his deputy said, every kenyan will have a chance to go through the report. If it doesn’t have any importance to the citizens, parliament will reject it,” he said.
Duale lashed out at Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru over BBI, saying that Waiguru is junior in Jubilee Party and she cannot lecture them on how to deal with BBI.
“Am telling Anne Waiguru, as a senior leader in Jubilee, you are too small at the hierarchy of the party called Jubilee so you cannot lecture anybody.”
Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichungwa, who also spoke at the thanksgivings ceremony, said while referring to the fracas that happened on 7 November in Kibra, there were senior officers and government officials who were colluding with goons to frustrate Kenyans and force them not to exercise their democratic rights of voting for their preferred candidate.
“We have civil servants and senior government officials who were colluding with goons to disenfranchise Kenyans from voting,” he lamented.
Angry Kimani also said the President must deal with the officials whose actions translates into violence and hide behind the handshake arguing that handshake was meant to calm tension and solve electoral injustices in the Country.
The Kikuyu MP said that we ‘must be honest about the handshake and BBI.’
“Votes were not won in Kibra, it was violence that won in Kibra on the day of elections. We must condemn violence, we must not glorify violence and sanitize violence by saying there were no death in Kibra,” Ichungwa argued.
If we are honest about the handshake and BBI, we must denounce violence and the use of violence in our election processes, he added.
The BBI report will be made public this coming Tuesday.
“It is now our privilege to inform the public that an appointment to hand the report to his Excellency the President has been arranged for 26 November, ” BBI taskforce said in a statement.
