ODM Leader Raila Odinga’s personal lawyer Paul Mwangi who served as a joint Secretary in the BBI taskforce has dismissed claims that some counties debated and passed the wrong BBI Bill.
Speaking on Wednesday night, Mwangi maintained that the reports are a plan to sabotage the BBI process.
According to Mwangi, the people pushing the agenda wanted to create grounds for the Judiciary to issue an order on the BBI Bill, and interfere with the referendum scheduled for later this year.
He maintained that the BBI taskforce only sent one Bill to the IEBC, adding that there is no way the commission could have produced another different Bill and sent it to the county assemblies.
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“We have just moved from the last attempt at sabotaging BBI which were people saying that they are going to make amendments to the document knowing very well that if they make any amendment to the document they will have legally sunk BBI.
“That has failed and this to me is just a new attempt at trying to come up with a credible reason that would give the Judiciary a standing to issue an order against BBI, but even this will fail.
According to Mwangi, the BBI Bill will be in dilemma only if speakers of county assemblies admit that they placed a wrong document before their members.
“We would only start talking about a problem if we are talking about speakers from various county assemblies saying they received a different document from IEBC or saying they possibly made a mistake and placed before their assemblies a foreign document,” he divulged.
On Wednesday, reports emerged indicating that 34 counties debated the wrong format of the document while 12 counties endorsed the correct format.
The Joint Justice and Legal Affairs Committee said there are three varying formats of the document, however, experts say that only the Senate received the format approved by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
