Implement key BBI recommendations through Parliament

Kenyans know about marathons. And our nation’s long-term development agenda is just that; a marathon, not a sprint. The most pressing matters requiring President Uhuru Kenyatta and his government’s full attention in the face of the coronavirus pandemic thankfully did not divert their focus away from Kenya’s long-term development agenda. 

Some, of course, hoped that the outbreak of the pandemic would mean the end of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). In fact, the opposite has proven true. If anything, the pandemic has highlighted ever more strongly why our country needs the BBI. Although the virus does not make a countrywide referendum possible at the moment, important progress has still been made.