Uhuru, Raila should not let Building Bridges Initiative to fail

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga with some members of the Building Bridges Initiative taskforce at State House, Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Not for the first time and most probably, not for the last time, a series of much-publicised meetings planned by the Building Bridges Initiative Task Force to receive memoranda from the public failed to take off at the Coast yesterday.

Last month, the team had to suspend sittings in Machakos, Kitui, and Makueni for lack of funds. Other meetings were held in Nairobi, but that did not assuage the fears that the Initiative has been undermined from within and seemingly crashed off the rails even before the journey had started.