President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga seemed to be reading from the same script during the presentation of the BBI report at the Bomas of Kenya on Wednesday, November 27.
Uhuru gave a similar narration regarding the build-up leading up to the historic handshake on March 8, 2018.
Raila while speaking at State House on Tuesday, November 26, during the official handover of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report to President Uhuru Kenyatta, had also confessed to having spent 19 hours in a secretive meeting with the president.
In an exclusive video seen by Kenyans.co.ke, Raila used his allocated 10 minutes to take the dignitaries present at the event down memory lane.
“It took 19 hours and it was not easy, as the president will explain to you later because we had called each other names,” he revealed.
The former PM allegedly revealed that his meeting with Uhuru back in 2018 was so secretive, they actually had to drive themselves to the undisclosed venue, to avoid any information leakage from within either of their camps.
On his part, Uhuru, during his address to delegates at Bomas, confessed to having sat in silence across the former PM in their closed-door meeting for at least an hour.
“When we met with Odinga we took tea for almost 45 minutes without having any discussion. All we could ask each other is how is home…how is your wife…how are the kids? There was nothing else we could talk about because of the anger from the insults we had been hurling at each other,” Uhuru disclosed.
“We were just the two of us in a room…we almost spent the night there. But after one hour that’s when we began talking,” he added.
It was this day-long tense meeting that gave birth to the BBI report that was presented to the public by the president accompanied by his deputy, William Ruto and his partner, Raila Odinga.
