President Uhuru Kenyatta has started 2021 with a new headache — rallying support for the BBI-driven constitutional referendum planned for June after a leaked letter by a senior member of his own party warned him of a possible embarrassing defeat.
Murang’a Senator Irungu Kang’ata, the hand-picked Jubilee Party’s Senate Majority Whip said in the leaked letter that the referendum, commonly referred as Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), was unpopular in the president’s political stronghold of Mt Kenya region, with only two out of 10 people supporting it.
