Kenya has not issued a resolution against BBI’s constitutional changes to the Uhuru Kenyatta News

The Kenyan Supreme Court ruled last month that the constitutional reforms proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta are illegal.

The Kenyan government has formally challenged it authority the country’s Supreme Court said last month that the constitutional reforms proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta were illegal.

The massive constitutional changes – popularly known as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) – were overturned by the judge on May 14 as they sought to hold amendments to the referendum before next year’s election against Kenyatta and his allies.

In a formal appeal filed in court on Wednesday, Attorney Kennedy Ogeto said the five-panel bank was “wrong” in determining that the president did not have the legal authority to correct those amendments.

He also concluded that the conclusion that the National Court could personally sue Kenyatta for carrying out an initiative was also wrong, the government attorney general said in appeals documents seen by the AFP news agency.

The appellate court will begin hearing the case on June 29.

BBI’s proposal is primarily intended to expand the executive as an attempt to prevent cycles of violence related to Kenyan elections, accused of an electoral system that takes in all existing winners.

It will create 70 new constituencies, elect the role of cabinet ministers to the elected members of parliament and create several new powerful positions: a prime minister, two deputies and a parliamentary opposition official.

Kenyatta and Raila Odinga emerged from an alliance that emerged after the controversial 2017 elections between men whose political enemies erupted in violence.

BBI has been approved by parliament and has dominated Kenyan politics ever since, splashed on the front pages of newspapers while touring countries supporting the Kenyatta and Odinga initiative, as well as in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Critics see the move as an offer to create a prime ministerial post for Kenya, which is not allowed to seek a third term in 2022.

His deputy William Ruto – who received a lot of advice to be Kenyatta’s successor in 2022 – is opposed to the reforms and has resigned because the president has created a political relationship with Odinga.

Some have argued that passing reforms would burden a country struggling with debt because it would push up the parliamentary wage bill, creating more opportunities for patronage and corruption.

In a televised appearance on Tuesday, Kenyatta said the National Court’s “attempt to stop the will of the people” against BBI.