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MPs Ultimatum mounts New Roadblock on BBI Bill

Building Bridges Initiative is facing a new hurdle, after members of parliament (MPS) demanded to have a more say in the review process. MPs are of the opinion that they should be allowed to make amendments to some proposals.
According to the Standard Digital, a joint legal committee drawn from the two Houses issued an ultimatum for parliamentary inclusion to make amendments to the BBI bill. 
The Committee that is largely constituted with members allied to President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga have stalled the presentation of the report to the floor of the House, until their conditions are met.
According to media reports, the legislators want to have more latitude to alter the 2020 BBI bill, specifically on the issue of allocation of the 70 new constituencies and establishment of the office of ombudsman.
Their move comes a week after IEBC, through its chairman Wafula Chebukati, asserted that it was incumbent upon the commission to determine the delimitation of the constituencies. The commission had sought more time for it to execute the demarcation plan.
BBI has faced a series of obstacles in the recent past, with a section of Raila’s allies raising fingers against a conspiracy by a section of civil servants to block the process. Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho was adversely linked to the plan to sabotage the BBI agenda.

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