Let Uhuru and Raila dialogue bring transformative change

Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga. [Photo: Standard]

Last week, ODM’s Raila Odinga and Jubilee’s Uhuru Kenyatta stepped out of Harambee House to a stunned nation. After a year of the bitterest rhetoric between the son of the Burning Spear and the scion of Jaramogi, the two key princes of Kenyan politics displayed a choreographed bonhomie.

They called each other “brothers” and told an exhausted and deeply divided nation that they had “a come to Jesus moment.” They said – after all – that none of them was bigger than Kenya, or each other. They vowed to stop Kenya from descending into dystopia. The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. The spectacle didn’t shock me – you make peace with your foes and enemies, not friends.