Why top leaders love BBI’s mixed bag of fortunes

Suna East MP Junet Mohamed and BBI National Initiative Co-chair Dennis Waweru during the Building Bridges Initiative steering committee preparations to present signatures to the IEBC at Anniversary Towers on December 10, 2020. [David Gichuru,Standard]

A conflation of political considerations, personal ambitions, strategic interests and pursuit of national good is playing in the background of the fervent push for constitutional changes packed in the handshake deal.

Through their handshake which triggered the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga have given a lifeline to sunken careers, revived fledgling ones and offered fresh prospects for more people to sit at the top.