After months of waiting, the Building Bridges Initiative task-force report was officially launched on Wednesday at the Bomas of Kenya with legal experts now rooting for a referendum to implement its contents.
In an event that was presided over by President Uhuru Kenyatta in the presence of ODM leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto, and other invited guests, the message was one: to make Kenya a better country. But how exactly?
According to Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei, a key Ruto ally, the BBI will have to be subjected to a popular initiative since it involves constitutional changes.
" A referendum will be needed. The proposal to alter the structure of the executive and the structure of Nairobi City County will be done through popular initiative but others can be done through a Parliamentary initiative," said the firebrand senator, who is also the senate legal affairs committee chairman as quoted by the Standard.
The new proposed Executive structure consists of an elected President, a Prime Minister appointed by the President, who will be from one of the elected Members of Parliament from Majority party and Cabinet Ministers, who may be appointed from among MPs and technocrats. The Prime Minister shall be the leader of government business in Parliament and can be fired by the President.