Opinion: To heal Kenya, let stakeholders define the agenda of dialogue

President Uhuru Kenyatta with his deputy William Ruto.

As the country approached the 2013 elections and with the looming cases before the International Criminal Court against Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, the large field of political actors tried out several possible coalition outfits, eventually resulting in the unlikely coming together of Kenyatta and Ruto, an occurrence that gave birth to the Jubilee coalition.

The coming together of Kenyatta and Ruto was unlikely because only four years earlier, the parts of the country from where they expected their core support, had been involved on opposing sides in the conflict that would give rise to the cases before the ICC.