By Christabel Airo
The Church and Clergy Association of Kenya (CCAK) has expressed discontent in the Building Bridges Initiative vowing to mobilize Kenyans to vote No in the coming referendum.
According to the CCAK, the BBI has not incorporated the wishes of thousands of Kenyans.
CCAK Chairman Hudson Ndeda said that the bill was forced on people although he cites that there is room to reach a consensus.
“We know that this Bill may be forced down our throats but we want to tell the proponents of the amendments that we will be waiting for them at the ballot come 2022,” Said Hudson Ndeda.
Ndeda further claimed that the church did not give its views in the bill stating that the church views were submitted in March. Consequently, he was against the position of a prime minister, two deputies and additional constituencies.
“We made our submissions on March 5, 2020 at Laico Regency but our very key proposals were not captured in the final draft of the BBI,” he added.
CCAK Secretary-General Geoffrey Gichuku questioned the intentions of BBI at this time.
“We are just wondering what these people who don’t want to listen to us now will tell us come 2022,” Gichuku lamented.
BBI secretariat earlier this week presented 4.4 million signatures supporting BBI to the IEBC and the IEBC CEO Wafula Chebukati received the signatures at Anniversary Towers.
“We have decided to submit 4.4 million signatures, we are also presenting the signatures plus the Bill,” BBI Secretariat Co-Chair Dennis Waweru said.
