Why BBI should not be dismissed out of hand

Delegates follow proceedings during the official launch of the Building Bridges Initiative report at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi on October 26, 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Away from blindly supporting or tearing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) into pieces, it helps if we think critically of consequences of going into the 2022 General Election without some form of reforms.

This is because the debate on the BBI report launched last month, if unchecked, is constantly artificialising a process that promised to give us hope of reforms in holding peaceful elections. This caution is what we read in the press statement released by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) last week at Subukia Shrine, Nakuru County.