IEBC Responds After Reports That Only 13 County Assemblies Passed the Right BBI Bill
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has denied claims that it submitted different versions of the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2020 to the 47 county assemblies.
IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati in a statement on Thursday stated that the commission only submitted copies it received from the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) secretariat.
He noted that BBI secretariat co-chairs Junet Mohamed and Dennis Waweru initially submitted six copies of the Bill to IEBC.
The commission later requested more printed copies from the secretariat for onward transmission to county assemblies.
“The BBI Promoters delivered to the commission fifty-seven (57) printed copies of the Bill, out of which the commission submitted forty-seven (47) copies to the county assemblies,” Chebukati stated.
The statement comes after it emerged that only 13 county assemblies passed the correct Bill, throwing the entire BBI process into turbulence.
The mix-up has been cited as one of the reasons why both the Senate and National Assembly are yet to make a decision on the BBI Bill.
The Bill was submitted to the two Houses after it was endorsed by at least 24 counties as required by the law.
43 county assemblies voted in favor of the Bill while Baringo, Elgeyo Marakwet, and Nandi rejected it. Uasin Gishu county assembly abstained.
Comments (12)
Ask do Ruto the secret maneuver behind the scenes to make the BBI look untenable! Ruto is behind the whole saga because he wants the BBI to fail!
Kweli Kenya iko na WANJINGA wengi.Can fake Roberts provide MWAKILISHI with the genuine BUILDING BILLIONAIRES INTATIVE document?And I hope he states how he will benefit from the useless BBI.He should also say how they will finance the extra luggage as any other loan to fund the useless katiba will be resisted.
So you @menye is confirming to the world that you the most stupid mjinga of all the warnings in Kenya? Kenyans wonder how a conman like you that always spread hate has not yet upreheaded! And you are talking about Kenyans are foolish while you top up the damn list? Really your mother must have labored hard to produce a classical dummy!
Migunax2. READ the real document to answer yourself! Wacha tukana wakenya hapa.
This idiot @menye insulting Kenyans across the divide ought to be taken off the streets! We can allow a crook to denigrate our nation and all Kenyans!
WANJINGA wengi doesn’t mean all Kenyans.They can be you,fake Roberts,Mutai,Waliq,Joshipine na kondoo wengine hapa na pale.But the un-answered question remains-Where will funds for BBI come from if Kenyans do not and will never afford the current poop constitution without expensive loans?How Will the loans be repaid?Wacheni kuluka luka hapa kwasababu muko na ma-doubles.Huku(niko Kangemi dakika hii) ni KUBAYA.HAIYA.
Wacha ushamba stupid fool! I’m not in your category of low level ghetto class to have a conversation with a low IQ idiot! I have seen your boyish nonsensical contributions here! You are just a dirty imbecile that need a little bit of castrating to mature up! You attack Raila and your other luo nemesis but leave me out of hooligan’s attitudes. Don’t be silly dude!
You and Mutai are just a hungry billionaires following others like kondoo.Where is money for BBI?How Will BBI benefit you?
We need to head into 2022 General Elections under the current constitution without BBI.
After getting 2M bribe they rubber stamped it without reading.
Confused govt confused president confused BBI confused legislature. Confused vaccination exercise. Confusion after confusion. The devil is master of confusion. He's a liar!
They told the MCA’s to pass the Bill as is.
Zero change.
What an embarrassing situation for MCA’s.
All of them must be voted out.