‘Mt. Kenya people were never behind BBI,’ Says Governor Waiguru

The Kirinyaga County governor who was speaking during an interview with Citizen TV’s Day Break on Wednesday said the polls and reactions done nationally showed that the people had been left behind in the quest to pass the Bill. 

While the contents of the BBI were a bag of goodies for the electorate, according to Governor Waiguru, the Bill was not supported by a majority.

“Looking at the reactions, and the polls done nationally, we seem to have left the people behind in the quest to pass BBI…I would be dishonest to say that the people of Mt Kenya were behind BBI. They were not,” Governor Waiguru said on Wednesday. 

Governor Waiguru was reacting to a tweet in which she called for introspection after the court of appeal upheld an earlier ruling by the High Court that had declared the Bill unlawful. 

“We have been on the constitutional amendment journey for 2 years & then we hit a dead end,” Governor Waiguru added “Any serious leader would then have to sit down and think where we went wrong…That is what I meant by ‘introspection’ in my Tweet,” 

Governor Waiguru believes that the BBI bill’s collapse requires a thorough examination of what went wrong with the Bill that had been hailed as the long-awaited cure-all to Kenya’s long-standing problems.