Building Bridges Initiative But the Bridges are for the Naked King and His Court.
Channel: My Articles But Video
Date: 2020-12-11

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Building Bridges Initiative But the Bridges are for the naked king and his court is a  video essay critique of the Building Bridges Initiative read from an article of the same title.
The video starts by introducing BBI, and its problematic areas. Offering a critique of the mainstream media coverage of the BBI process through the lens of Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent", Showing How politicians are manufacturing reality in Kenya and finally a call to action to reject BBI.

Research Links

BBI Report
https://www.kenyagazettepdf.com/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/Report-of-the-BBI-Steering-Committee-21.10.2020.pdf

Manufacturing Consent

https://youtu.be/EuwmWnphqII

Tyranny Of Numbers

https://youtu.be/977VqPqcQvk

Gerald Bitok live  (P.L.O Lumumba Interview )
https://youtu.be/rS38Gmz9ong





   
VIDEO CONCLUSION.


Manufacturing Authenticity and Reality

“Propaganda to a democracy is what violence is to a dictatorship”
~Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing consent 
 Between 18th January 2020 and March 5th 2020, there were seven successful BBI rallies starting from the Western Region, Kisii, Kitui, Meru, Narok,  Garissa,  Mombasa with the Nakuru Rally which was to be held on the 25th of march being postponed. The local legacy media was offering the necessary airplay during the news to no fault as it's embedded in the basic journalism of definition of what is news. With only sound bites from the rallies and political experts who only discussed the rallies without giving any context to what is BBI. 
Every Kenyan Knew about BBI but asking the average Kenyan, what is BBI about? Why are you supporting BBI? you will quickly come to the realization that the majority of Kenyans only picked a side depending on what their politician of choice has aligned with. This is mainly due to the purposefully poor civil education on the proposed bill and historically the distribution of resources along tribal lines which has obviously manifested as the tribal politics that BBI is claiming to find a solution.





In 2013, Mutahi Ngunyi came up with the term Tyranny of Numbers (Which was a beautiful sound byte ) Which he used to predict that the Jubilee coalition would win the 2013 election. I have since come to be fearful of this concept since it becomes a self-fulfilling self-perpetuating meme in Kenya. Condemning the country to only ethnic elections and opening up a justification for election fraud.
The political elite supporting BBI has done well to align themselves for BBI with only the Deputy President still hanging on the fence. On 2nd December 2020 in a press conference, he asked if there is a possibility of more choices instead of the usual yes or no During the referendum. 
Negating the cases of coercion by local leaders for getting the necessary number of one million signatures to start the process to formulating it to a bill. As far as the political class is concern BBI will become part of the law regardless of the protests by Kenyans on Twitter. Your will as a Kenyan is of no consequence and the reality is manufactured
“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.”
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics 

The Building Bridges initiative is vulgar mutilation of the tongue of Wanjiku. Built on the illusionary premise that the Elected officials are rulers, and the electorate are subjects instead of the reality of the democratic spirit where the government is owned by the people and the elected officials are representatives of the wishes of the electorate. We should reject the BBI proposal that will instead usher Kenya to an authoritarian rule where the only reason you head to the ballot is to keep the façade of your contribution in deciding your fate.
The object of politics is who gets what, how and when. As far as BBI is concern the Political elite get whatever they want, without any regard for the spirit of democracy and all the time. We should as Kenyan refuse to go back to the ages of tyranny and take this as a serious assault to  our rights and freedoms.