What next for Atwoli after BBI setback?

COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli. [Robert Menza, Standard]

Following the shock ruling by a five-judge bench that declared that Uhuru Kenyatta violated Chapter 6 of the Constitution by seeking constitutional amendment through the Building Bridges’ initiative (BBI), attention now again shifts to Francis Atwoli. Whither now for this indefatigable defender (some say founding father) of the BBI seeing that his pet innovation has been declared null and void? Is this a temporary lapse of his ‘prophetic’ accuracy, or a clear defeat in battle?

For Atwoli’s bulging public image had been significantly bolstered by his uncannily accurate predictions revolving around Ruto and the BBI. Despite his deceptive veneer of a rotund querulous irritant, or a temperamental blabber-mouth (depending on one’s viewpoint), this has forced us to finally take him seriously. In 2020 for instance, he predicted that county assemblies would pass the BBI Bill and that Parliament and the Senate would vote unanimously for it. These two events came to pass.