Hopefully, it's not call to join nyama choma feast

Last Friday, we said in this space there was a lot more that President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga had to do to make their handshake meaningful for this ethnically and politically fissured country. We stopped short of reminding them of what former President Daniel Moi used to reprimand us about: ‘Haitaongeza ugali kwenye sufuria zetu (It will not give us more ugali in our pots).”

Today, we take heart that both Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto used the auspicious occasion of the State of the Nation address on Wednesday to seek forgiveness for the ‘sins’ sprouting from last year’s political events. Uhuru expressed regret about the way things evolved, albeit praising security forces for the clampdown on National Super Alliance (NASA) supporters.