A group of politicians worked hard to plant moles within the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) team throughout before the report was launched, it has emerged.
The team handed over the final report on Tuesday before President Uhuru Kenyatta made it public on Wednesday at Bomas of Kenya.
But the Yusuf Haji-led team endured difficulties throughout the period in office, with some politicians keen to use insiders to scuttle the process.
“At the beginning, there was an attempt to recruit members who would push certain things towards a certain direction, but this largely failed,” lawyer Paul Mwangi said as quoted by Nation.
Immediately they were sworn in, the team took an oath to protect their integrity and ethics by protecting all they discussed.
Later on, there were attempts to use members of the secretariat to leak the report, a move which made the team to settle on Mwangi and Martin Kimani as custodians of the report.
"Towards the end of the process there were attempts to recruit members to leak the contents of the report. When we started discussing the report after the county tours, we deliberated about who was going to sit in the meetings,” one of the joint secretaries, Paul Mwangi, told Saturday Nation.
“We agreed that only the people that had been gazetted as members of the task force would sit in the deliberations. The task of record-keeping was largely left to Amb Martin Kimani and I,” Mr Mwangi narrated.
Among others, the team has recommended the creation of Prime Minister's post whose hold must be an MP, picked by the president with the approval of parliament.
The team also recommended that cabinet ministers be drawn from MPs and a few technocrats for the sake of improving the performance of the executive.