Contrary to expectations of many. President Uhuru Kenyatta did not walk in former premier Raila Odinga in Mt Kenya region to market him after their truce handshake in March 2018. Not even at tail end of his reign. Why so?
Broadly, President Uhuru Kenyatta wanted to erase kingpin permission mentality. That it’s constitutional light for every citizen to visit any part of Kenya, not more so,the head of state who is the symbol of unity. But, to break tribal cocoon culture. Sometimes its need some wit. It costed our Savior Jesus Christ life, to break Jews tribal cocoon culture to plant universal tribal-less culture. For what unfortunate, that after advent of multiparty, which ushered in competitive presidency the three former now diseased presidents campaigned selectively to avert bloody confrontations.
So, for President Uhuru Kenyatta, to bypass his backyard-Mt Kenya-during official campaign period and in that matter at tail end of his presidency to campaign for Raila Odinga in his [Raila’s] backyard was not ironical. But merely ascertaining and enjoying his breakthrough of unifying Kenya from Coast to Nyanza, signified by his flying from Kisumu to Mombasa for his last public campaign projects engagements.