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THE STANDARD Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] Senior government technocrats from Mt Kenya region met yesterday morning at a hotel in Nairobi in what sources said was aimed at turning around rhetoric on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) in central Kenya. The meeting attended by principal secretaries and senior parastatal officials was chaired by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya at the La Mada Hotel off Thika highway in Ruaraka. Sources who attended the meeting said the technocrats were asked to chip in any assistance they could to the BBI cause especially in their rural areas. The technocrats are also said to have discussed a proposal to take a more prominent role in wresting control of the initiative from Uhuru-allied hardliners who were blamed for scaring moderate voices from supporting the constitutional reform moment.
THE STANDARD POLITICS National Assembly Majority Leader Amos Kimunya [File, Standard] More than 30 Mt Kenya MPs yesterday vowed to popularise the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) in the region. Speaking after a meeting at the Thika Greens Golf Resort in Murang'a County, the MPs warned that it would be foolhardy to reject the document, which promises a lot for the region. "Failure to pass the BBI would portend a bleak future. It will mean continued unfair representation and economic deprecation of our region," said the legislators. They added that it would be negligent for the regional leadership to allow the country to go into another election without resolving the issues that bring chaos every election cycle.