Thirdway Alliance boss Ekuru Aukot has yet again dismissed Building Bridges Initiative as an agreement between two individuals, which does not have backing from Kenyans.
In yet another scathing attack on Wednesday, Aukot said the initiative remains unconstitutional and cannot be used as a shortcut in intended constitutional amendments.
Dr Aukot is currently pushing for Punguza Mizigo initiative, which was okayed by IEBC after managing to collect over 1 million signatures.
According to Aukot, who was also part of the team of experts who drafted the current constitution, BBI is a gift to Raila Odinga from President Uhuru Kenyatta.
“That BBI is a confusion, directionless, duplicitous of functions and a waste of money. If I had that Sh10 billion given to them I would build proper classrooms... It is an agreement between two individuals and does not represent 46 million Kenyans,” said Aukot.
“I think Uhuru sympathised so much with Raila that he decided to give him a political gift of campaigning for 2022, because... how come out of the nine points none them says go collect views to seek to amend the Constitution,” added Aukot.
The BBI team is set to handover report to Uhuru and Raila in September, and the report is set to be used as a basis to push for constitutional amendments that will affect governance.
Already, all major political parties have backed BBI, throwing Aukot's popular initiative into shambles. Majority of MCAs belong to Jubilee and ODM parties.
While Mr Odinga is yet to declare any intentions for 2022, he has however, insisted that there must be changes before Kenyans head to polls in 2022.