BBI team cannot close eyes to unanswered questions on land

After a quick perusal of the BBI Report upon its initial release, this week I found some precious time to absorb a little more of its contents. Each of us most likely approach such documents with our own personal interests and expectations, and mine centred on what it had to recommend on the issue of land. 

Half hoping that there might be a chapter devoted to this most sensitive and divisive of matters, the contents page disappointed. Still, when Chapter 1 was entitled, ‘Notable issues that Kenyans must deal with’ there was hope that gold might be found therein. Alas, after naming 15 issues and not finding land among them, bewilderment set in. Still, better wade through to the end and hope to find some solace and inspiration. No mention of land in Chapter 7 ‘Shared Prosperity’ and wait for it, not a word even in Chapter 8 on ‘Corruption’.