A police officer was on Wednesday, December 2, arrested after he went into the assistant chief's office in Kipreres Sub location, took the BBI signature booklet and tore it to pieces.
The officer, Peter Langat, had said that he wanted to participate in the signing process. However, immediately he got the book, he tore two pages of serial number; 0685180 and 0685183 respectively.
In addition, he went and threw the book into a nearby stream.
"The reportee managed to retrieve the book from the stream and rushed to the station where he reported the matter. He indicated that the book was already soaked in water and the two pages were torn," reads a police statement.
The officer, who was suspected to be drunk at the time, would then go home where he was arrested by his colleagues.
"Once the officer was asked of his Service Number he refused to disclose but he said that he is attached at Bungoma Police Station which is yet to be confirmed," the statement added.
As of Monday, more than 1.5 million Kenyans had endorsed the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Bill.
The initiative’s Joint Secretaries former MP Dennis Waweru and Suna East MP Junet Mohammed projected that the exercise will be completed by end of the week.
“Making the country’s constitution is a patriotic duty and not a political campaign. Therefore, we would want to once more emphasize that no citizen should be left behind,” the officials stated.
Meanwhile, Deputy President William Ruto and his allies failed to make a much-awaited decisive position on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) referendum process on Wednesday.
He called for consensus on the process and advocated for the final vote to be held alongside the 2022 general election scheduled for August 2022.
This has raised questions on whether there is a possibility of amending a document that has reportedly received one million signatures required to proceed to the ballot.
