With BBI on life support and proving to be a fragile bet, what’s next for political elite?

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga look at their signatures during the launch of the collection of signatures for the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) at KICC in Nairobi on November 25, 2020.[Stafford Ondego,Standard]

The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is facing serious constitutional timelines that have sent the political elite back to the drawing board. The shrewd in Kenya’s political top brass know that the initiative is on life support as a factor of constitutional time barriers for next year’s General Election. The barriers make BBI a fragile bet for those looking for power next year. They have now begun groping their way towards the election, without banking heavily on BBI, whatever good it has promised this far.