NGUGI: The ink’s hardly dry on BBI report and the sycophants are screaming

In last week’s column focusing on the recently released Building Bridges Initiative report, I noted: “If we put our ethnic politics and overblown egos aside for the next few months, we can make discussion of the BBI report not just a constitutional moment but also a moment for personal and national reinvention. And history will record that this moment created the foundation of a prosperous, united and peaceful country.”

I now realise I was hoping for too much. The moment of national introspection witnessed at the unveiling of the report at the Bomas of Kenya and the general goodwill towards it immediately afterwards have disappeared, and the political class is back to ‘‘factory settings.’’