The High court ruling on Friday on declaring the BBI referendum process illegal has elicited mixed reactions among leaders and opinion sharpers in Narok County. Nominated member of Parliament David Ole Sankok who voted for the BBI bill in parliament but turned critic, welcomed the ruling claiming the intention and the process was fraud and it’s a win for Kenyans. In a scathing ruling, five High Court judges in Kenya have blocked a government-backed plan to make fundamental changes to the country’s constitution. The judgement is arguably the most significant ruling by Kenyan courts since President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election win was nullified in 2017.
However, Mr Sankok said the Judiciary is the only independent institution in Kenya that is remaining truly independent and the DCI and EACC should learn lessons from the decision of Judiciary. “The DCI and police IG should go bench-marking in the judiciary on what it means to be independent and stop being used as a militia group to threaten Kenyans in enforcing COVID-19 protocols,” said the MP warning the police that the day of reckoning will come. Speaking at his Osim Resident at Ewuaso Ngiro trading center on Saturday, Mr Sankok saluted the judges for protecting the constitution and liberating the people of Kenya from state capture and called on opposition Raila Odinga to accept the verdict and move on since God now has stopped Reggae.
He further hit at his party leader and president Uhuru Kenyatta on the government funds used to popularize BBI across the country saying these were money from public coffers and must be refunded. “We will revisit how government money was used to popularize an illegality, and every cent must be refunded by proponents of the process,” said Mr Sankok. Mr Sankok claimed the promoters of the BBI were so determined to achieve selfish objectives that they threw caution to the wind by disregarding constitutional provisions and depended on deep state machinery and system. The outspoken legislator further questioned how again the deep state and the system was beaten and left the government exposed to embarrassment. “The much hyped deep state and system is just an amorphous proverbial ghost used to scare politicians and top government officials to force them toe the line and Kenyans not be scared of it,” he added.
He warned the Jubilee administration that the signs are written on the wall and it is just preparation for things to come including mass exodus from government and the ruling coalition by MPs to the ‘Hustler Nation’ since so far its Marketing the best Economic model-The Bottoms up. The judges said the constitution amendment bill, popularly referred to as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), was irregular, illegal and unconstitutional. President Kenyatta and his political nemesis-turned-ally, Raila Odinga, unveiled the initiative after a truce following the contentious 2017 election, which saw violent clashes around the country.