BBI should quit now that Punguza Mizigo has stolen the thunder

Building Bridges Initiative chairman Yusuf Haji (centre), vice chair Adams Oloo( right) and the task force secretary Paul Mwangi (left) address the media in Nairobi on July 15, 2019. [Collins Kweyu/Standard]

It has taken the Thirdway Alliance’s Punguza Mizigo referendum push to expose the true identity of those who, all along, have masqueraded as champions of the people’s rights. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has perennially projected itself as the friend of the oppressed, yet when the first real chance to cement that position arose, the party went into paroxysms.