Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui believes the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) has a "magic bullet" to solve Kenya’s leadership and development problems.
Speaking on Citizen TV on Monday morning, July 26, the BBI proponent opined that the initiative would have the answer to most of the problems being experienced in different parts of the country.
The Nakuru Governor went on to explain how the BBI would have been consequential in balancing the distribution of the resources in different parts of the country.
The Governor used the example of the distribution of bursaries in different counties to cite the relevance of the BBI Bill, and how it will address the imbalances created by previous resources-sharing and distribution models.
"The average bursary I give in my own county is Ksh 3,000 to Ksh 4,000 per beneficiary, in other parts of the country, they are doing up to Ksh 100,000 educating their kids outside," opined the Governor.
The Governor said that the revision of the sharable resources distribution formula would be addressed by the BBI Bill and would address such inequalities.
He took a jab at former nominated Senator Isaac Mwaura, who was appearing on the same panel with him, for having hailed from a County (Kiambu) which receives the highest bursaries in the country but opposing the BBI Bill.
Kinyanjui also criticized those who did not support the Bill, expressing his displeasure at their contempt of the initiative.
"Mwaura here, who does not want to hear anything about the BBI, comes from a constituency that is actually the highest in the country in terms of resources allocation. In Kiambu, the bursaries are given a range between Ksh 5,000 and Ksh 10,000," noted the Governor.
His emphasis on the bursary was informed by his argument that education will play a big role in liberating and empowering the youth to take charge of their lives.
"Those kids who cannot pursue their education later become hopeless. They remain in the villages doing nothing and mostly end up in crime.”
The Governor further urged politicians not to engage in political rhetoric that divides the country, saying that the winning coalition will be respected to run the whole country and not regions.
"As we go into the next election, whichever coalition is going to win is going to be running the whole country, so let us have an honest and sober conversation without an attempt just to politic."
