Bungoma Senator and Ford Kenya party leader Moses Wetangula has asked the government to make public the BBI report so that Kenyans can read it and understand its content before making decisions. Addressing residents at Sosio village, Kamukuywa ward in Kimilili constituency at the funeral of the chairman of Ford Kenya party in Uasin Gishu County John Bunyasi, Wetangula asked the government to stop the individuals personalising the BBI report, saying it should be a national discourse.
He added that Kenya is a peaceful country that needs a Constitution that will be respected and called for President Uhuru Kenyatta to make sure that he brings everybody on board and brings every leader together. He said that the youth and women issues should be given the first priority and more so, equitable distribution of resources and development that cuts across the country so that whatever is being done in a particular region is replicated in another. On matters surrounding the leasing of Nzoia Sugar factory, Wetangula said the people of Bungoma will never embrace the idea of leasing of the factory until there is proper public participation.
He said residents of Bungoma want to tell the government what they want and not the other way round adding that the Constitution gives the people of Bungoma the right to question. “The government must listen to us as the people of Bungoma as far as the sugar company issues are concerned. We want a strategic partner and investor not a person to lease Nzoia Sugar Company.”