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Could this be new BBI power line-up?

From Left: Nyandarua Governor Francis Kimemi, Kiraitu Murungi (Meru), ODM leader Raila Odinga, CS Peter Munya and Ann Waiguru (Kirinyaga) at Kinoru Stadium in Meru during the Mt Kenya BBI Forum. (Kibata Kihu, Standard)

Devolution, agriculture and 2022 succession politics featured heavily in the Meru Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) rally yesterday, as leaders insisted that a referendum on certain key issues, was inevitable.

The highly anticipated meeting saw nearly all speakers push for a new revenue allocation strategy that would see counties adopt a sharing formula based on population.

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