Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has accused President Uhuru Kenyatta dividing the country through Building Bridges Initiative politics.
Via Twitter on Monday, the senator said Uhuru should "embrace the spirit of dialogue and consensus building."
"I want to ask President Kenyatta to stop dividing the country. The President should be a statesman and learn to build bridges of unity. The bravado and utado attitude is not a mark of eminence," Murkomen said.
He was responding to a Twitter post by State House which announced Uhuru's retreat to Naivasha to meet pro-BBI MPs.
"President Uhuru Kenyatta is in Naivasha, Nakuru County for a meeting with Parliamentarians from both the Senate and the National Assembly to discuss and build consensus on the implementation road map of the reform proposals contained in the Building Bridges Initiative report," the tweet by State House read.
MPs drawn from both the Senate and National Assembly have been meeting in Naivasha for a retreat to breakdown the contents of the BBI report.
While Uhuru and ODM leader Raila Odinga’s allies are leading calls for the passage of the document without changes, those of Deputy President William Ruto are for its amendment.
Critcising the agenda of the retreat, Murkomen said, "Don’t buy the grandstanding and the political posturing in Naivasha. The BBI Constitutional Amendment Bill must and will be amended. More than half of those in Naivasha are of the same spirit with us who were not invited. They are making the same demands we are making. Amending we must."
His sentiments were echoed by Kikuyu constituency MP Kimani Ichung'wa, who said the BBI is being used as a divisive ethnic mobilisation tool for a political agenda.
"BBi was billed as a tool to unite but the opposite is true. It is not surprising for me, but sad for Kenya that the President who ought to be a symbol of national unity is playing into the divisive agenda."
