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?Why BBI will not foster our nascent democracy

The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), which is a product of the historic truce between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, ushered in by the March 2018 handshake has been a trending subject in social and mainstream media, as well as in other quarters.

Like previous contentious key political developments, it has fractured the society into three conspicuous camps - the protagonists, antagonists and moderates. This is an unfortunate feature in Kenyan politics whereby a solution to a primary crisis often breeds secondary, tertiary and quaternary problems.

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