Handshake Dividends: Raila allies rewarded

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga. Several leaders from the Nyanza region have benefited recent leadership changes in the government. [File, Standard]

The March 9 political truce between opposition chief Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta has handed a lifeline to scores of senior politicians who lost the August 2017 elections.

In his latest appointments, President Uhuru Kenyatta has offered plum state jobs to familiar names in another government shakeup.