Uhuru and Raila truce remains very strange, highly suspicious

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga

Time continues to clarify the meaning of the recent handshake between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga.

An emerging effect of the handshake is that it now places Deputy President William Ruto in the kind of place where Raila found himself after the 2007 election when circumstances brought him into power-sharing arrangements with President Mwai Kibaki.