BBI Is A Dream Deferred – President Uhuru Kenyatta

The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Constitutional Amendment is a dream deferred, President Uhuru Kenyatta said during the 58th Jamhuri Day celebrations.

Speaking at the Uhuru Gardens, Nairobi, the president who presided over the event said BBI will be realized in spite of the legal obstacles.

The head of state urged Kenyans to come together and mend the cracks on the nation’s walls.

“BBI is just a dream deferred one day, someday it will happen,” said the president.

“We ask Kenyans need each other as our forefathers taught us, to come together reinforced our resolve.”

He revealed that he and ODM leader Raila Odinga shook hands to foster peace after running against each other in two elections that cost the taxpayer Sh1 trillion.

“We had run two elections that cost the country Sh1 trillion in business loses and we were staring at a nation divided right in the middle,” he said. “Because we had disagreed respectfully, we knew that this was a mark of progress.”

Noting that bringing all Kenyans from different walks of life was a difficult task, the head of state stated that it was necessary.

“In 2007, we ran into another architectural defect in our nation-building project. We discovered that the politics of exclusion in which the ‘winner takes it all’ was not good for our country. We were bold enough to change the Constitution and expand the executive in order to accommodate the excluded,” Uhuru said.

The BBI case is set to be heard in the Supreme Court on January 18, 2022.