Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi on Thursday, November 12, condemned the News Gang team on Citizen TV for questioning President Uhuru Kenyatta's commitment to a consensus in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process.
The Citizen TV team asked why the president did not detail how consensus will be built in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) to amend parts of the constitution in his State of the Nation speech on Thursday.
Mutahi accused the team of failing to read widely to spearhead the discussion.
"The news gang is at it again. Exchanging ignorance and doing bar talk on National TV. Constitutional Consensus is not concurrence. If you agree to disagree, is that consensus or is it concurrence?" he posed.
"A little reading will help this group of ignoramus," he added.
The news gang team wondered whether two political factions would come to a consensus on whether the BBI document would be altered to make a few changes or not.
The journalists indicated that they expected President Uhuru Kenyatta to discuss more on the consensus issue during the State of the Nation address.
"I would have expected that consensus is about agreeing and bridging the divide but that word consensus is turning out to be something different because there are various interpretations of what consensus is in so far as our politicians and leaders.
"On one hand I hear one group say that this document will be dealt as is, not a comma, not a full stop will be removed but on the other hand, I hear another team say that the second document after the one in 2019 offered an opportunity for Kenyans to say a few things that they would have wanted to see in the document," Citizen TV senior reporter Francis Gachuri stated.
Citizen TV Director of innovation and Strategy Linus Kaikai, argued that there was no rival document.
He argued that if there was a rival position, it then ought to be submitted.
"For me, consensus meant exactly what forgiveness meant during the National Prayer day. It's mentioned to serve a particular purpose," Kaikai stated.
