On BBI report let’s discuss the presidency which we fight over

Majority politicians and commentators have run to town with the wrong conversation about the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). In the process, the debate has veered off key facts: The Presidency and how the country perceives and relates with it, both historically and presently.

To sanitise the BBI debate calls for separation of issues that should not be part of the debate, and personalities who should not participate in the 2022 presidential contest. This saves a lot of time, energy and resources expended in efforts to find common ground and consensus in a process full of hypocrisy. Through ethnic lenses, Kenyans see communities, not individuals, as either being in or out of power. Any other arguments around the BBI, including the March 9 2018 handshake, referendum, and the Kenyatta succession, is secondary and diversionary.