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Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga held separate meetings with their legal and strategy teams over the weekend after disapproving the report submitted by the Joint Legal Affairs Committee on the Building Bridges Initiative.<\/p>\n

The report adopted by a majority of the MPs and Senators in the committee declared that the move to create 70 additional constituencies was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Legislators such as Siaya Senator James Orengo, Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo and JLAC co chair Senator Okong\u2019o Omogeni signed the report despite being proponents of the handshake and are now being accused of betrayal.<\/p>\n

This comes even as the team wrote in the report that despite the declaration, the document cannot be amended by Parliament because it would signal the end of the process.<\/p>\n

“It is not possible to tell why a committee led by supposedly pro-handshake and BBI MPs chose to come so close to derailing the process and even killing the initiative. It has caused some mistrust that will take time to heal.<\/p>\n

“We expect opposition to the Bill to come only from those who have always opposed the initiative, which is Tangatanga. ODM, Wiper, ANC, and the President’s wing of Jubilee will pass the BBI, Odinga is quite sure about that, ” Raila Odinga’s spokesperson Dennis Onyango told the media.<\/p>\n

Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior stated that the quagmire was brought about by Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja\u2019s decision to write another report which created cracks in the committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were no camps. Sakaja announced his intention to author a minority report at the last minute,\u201d he told journalists, adding that some members were whipped to support it.<\/p>\n

Without Sakaja\u2019s separate report, the committee would have unanimously supported the one rejected by the handshake principles without scrutiny on who supported which report.<\/p>\n

Senator Mutula clarified that despite declaring the constituencies unconstitutional, the BBI Bill would still be tabled in Parliament without alterations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe committee has endorsed the bill but has pointed out areas of concern. Let me be clear that no one is opposing the bill and we are also clear in the report that the bill cannot be reopened for amendments.<\/p>\n

“In any case, Parliament will not be approving the report but the bill. The report is just to guide the debate,\u201d Senator Kilonzo added.<\/p>\n

Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s camp holds that the only organization mandated to create the electoral boundaries is IEBC and these arguments are expected to play out in Parliament when the document is tabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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