Kenyans need for dialogue cannot be overemphasised

NAIROBI: Grandstanding has become the hallmark of Kenyan politics. Dialogue between the Government and the Opposition is frowned upon. The result is that there are a lot of things going wrong that would have been sorted out through round-table discussions.

The call to dialogue was first mooted by the Opposition mid last year, but some individuals in Government, citing the manner and tone of the demands for talks, saw it as a ploy by the Opposition to topple the duly elected government of President Uhuru Kenyatta. The winner-takes-it-all mentality seems to hold sway in Kenya to the exclusion of reason.