Nairobi, Nov. 17 -- Ten contentious issues will determine the fate of the referendum campaign as promoters of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) set off to collect one million voters' signatures to back the constitutional amendments.

These are the issues repeatedly contested by various interest groups and around which the resistance against the BBI referendum campaign seems to be building up.

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How BBI proponents explain them to the public to push back the narrative by critics - especially since the window for amendments appears to have closed - will influence the success or failure of the campaign in the vote expected in June.

These are the main sticky issues and why they have kicked up a storm.

1. A prime minister, ...