The vanity of sycophancy

‘No politician ever builds his fences so high that they can’t be comfortably straddled’, the Arkansas Gazette, which folded in 1991, once wrote. And nothing amply demonstrates this than the détente announced by President Kenyatta and his political nemesis, Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga on Friday.

Since the handshake on the steps of Harambee House, reminiscent of that between former Prime Minister Odinga and retired President Kibaki exactly 10 years, 8 days to the day, analysts have been postulating the whys and wherefores of the meeting between perhaps the bitterest of foes which caught friend and foe unawares. The Long and short of it though is that as has often been said, there indeed are no permanent enemies in politics.