President Uhuru Kenyatta has reiterated that the Building Bridges Initiative constitutional amendment is a dream that will be achieved.
He said that despite the legal obstacles the BBI faced, the dream will be achieved in the end.
Speaking on Sunday, during the Jamhuri day celebrations, the president said that Kenyans need to come together and mend the cracks on the walls of our nation.
"This I believe is what necessitated the first amendment to our constitution," Uhuru said.
"BBI is just a dream deferred one day, someday it will happen."
"We ask Kenyans need each other as our forefathers taught us, to come together reinforced our resolve," the President said.
The Head of State said that he agreed to the March 8, 2018 handshake with ODM leader Raila Odinga because they saw a crack on the wall of our nation.
He said the cracks cost the country up to Sh1 billion because of the divide that existed then.
"We had run two elections that cost the country Sh1 trillion in business loses and we were staring at a nation divided right in the middle," he said.
"Because we had disagreed respectfully, we knew that this was a mark of progress."
The president said it was difficult, but it had to happen because it was the right thing to do at the time.
"In 2007, we ran into another architectural defect in our nation-building project. We discovered that the politics of exclusion in which the ‘winner takes it all’ was not good for our country. We were bold enough to change the Constitution and expand the executive in order to accommodate the excluded," Uhuru said.
Edited by D Tarus
