Kenyatta seeks to amend Constitution

President Uhuru Kenyatta has given the clearest indication yet that a referendum will be held to amend the Constitution by implementing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) which seeks to end ethnic violence, notes the Daily Nation. ‘It’s a moment that will right what we got wrong in 2010,’ he said in reference to the previous constitutional amendment a decade ago. ‘The constitutional moment I discern is one that will bring an end to the senseless cycles of violence we have experienced in every election since 1992,’ he said. CapitalFM reports that Kenyatta added that he intended to ‘deepen the country's democratic credentials and lead to a more inclusive society aligned with the noble intentions of the framers of the Constitution’. The BBI proposes that the President will pick a Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and their assistants from members of the National Assembly ‘in a bid to deal with the abstract nature of the current government arrangement’.

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