Kenya: President Kenyatta Defends 'Bridge' to Connect With Opposition

Kenyatta's historic handshake with longtime rival and opposition leader Raila Odinga triggered a vicious power struggle inside the ruling Jubilee coalition amid accusations that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) was just a plan to disrupt the succession pact that took him to power.

President Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the controversial relationship while laying the foundation-stone of a 27-km lap of the Nairobi -Mombasa expressway, in Mlolongo, Machakos County on Wednesday.

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