Let the people decide which plebiscite bid is best for them

Deputy President William Ruto with former Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the Third Kenya Trade Week and Expo 2019 at Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi. [DPPS]

The vehemence with which Dr Ekuru Aukot’s Punguza Mizigo initiative is being opposed draws more attention to it. One would expect that proponents of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) would go flat out to popularise it, but no, they have instead chosen to tell the public how bad Punguza Mizigo is.

Raila Odinga, co-architect of the BBI, is on record rubbishing Punguza Mizigo, with ODM’s MPs on the offensive, mobilising MCA’s to reject the draft proposal in county assemblies. Overall, Members of Parliament who would be the biggest losers were Punguza Mizigo to be adopted, seek to exploit a loophole in the Constitution to frustrate it.