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What was Raila Odinga’s role in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)?

In 2018 Raila Odinga began working with political rival Uhuru Kenyatta, who was then the president of Kenya, on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) task force to address the challenges in Kenya. Among the task force’s recommendations were several that intended to provide for greater power sharing among the country’s many ethnic groups. However, a constitutional amendment bill based on the BBI’s recommendations was ultimately declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2022.