Peace, plum state jobs as handshake turns one year

The vibrant and famous Kondele in Kisumu on the night of December 25, 2018. Kondele is now a 24-hour economy, with traders and buyers in business the whole day and night. [File, Standard]

It is no longer a secret in Nyanza that Opposition leader Raila Odinga has maneuvered his way into the national kitchen where plum State jobs and development projects are cooked, thanks to his historic handshake with President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Talk that Raila is involved in the day-to-day running of the government is now rife across the country as Kenyans mark one year since the two leaders, whose bloody political rivalry battered the economy and left several people dead or injured, agreed to a ceasefire.