Veteran politician Koigi Wa Wamwere has warned that the country is drifting back to the days of one party rule that revolved around independence party KANU.
According to Koigi, recents incidents like teargassing leaders who were opposed to the BBI meeting in Kakamaga demonstrates that democracy has been suspended.
Led by former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale, the leaders attempted to hold a parallel rally to the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) consultative forum in Bukhungu Stadium, resulting in a clash with the police.
According to Wamwere, this amounts to dictatorship, suggesting that the reason why they were barred from holding their rally is because of their deemed stand against the BBI report.
"The politics we are seeing are the ones of the single party regime, during the times of KANU party. Let BBI supporters tell us why dictatorship is replacing democracy (Siasa tunazoziona ni zile zilizokuwa siku za chama kimoja wakati wa chama cha KANU. Tunataka watu wa BBI watuambie mbona udikteta umechukua pahali pa demokrasia)," he said on Saturday.
Koigi, one of those who actively fought against the single party regime, made the remarks in an interview on Radio Sauti Ya Mwananchi's Cheche show on Saturday evening.
He pointed out that BBI has already shown signs of failing, given that its already dividing Kenyans yet its founders said that it will be used to unite the entire country and heal the division ailment.
Wamwere, who has also not been in support of the push, stated that the BBI frontiers have began discriminating other politicians, on grounds that they are fighting the BBI.
Some of these, he noted, have declared their support for the push, only that they have questioned the procedure being used to realize the changes, like allies of Deputy President William Ruto.