Bahati Member of Parliament Kimani Ngunjiri now claims that the recent series of reconciliations between President Uhuru Kenyatta and the opposition top brass comes with its financial effects.
Speaking on Radio Jambo’s ‘Mazungumzo Waziwazi’ on Tuesday evening, the lawmaker noted that the newfound friendships dubbed handshakes will cost Kenyans some money.
And though yet to be communicated to Kenyans, he said that opposition leader Raila Odinga and Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) must have in turn been promised some privileges for being party to the same.
‘’Japo nchi imetulia baada ya marudiano kati ya Raila na Kalonzo, kunayo gharama ambayo serikali itatumia kwao (the reconciliations come with their own costs),’’ he said.
Uhuru on March 9 reached a truce with Raila in a surprise move that left out their allies, including Deputy President William Ruto.
The two groups would again meet during a prayer breakfast a month later, where Ruto and Raila promised to bury the hatchet, as was the case between Kalonzo and Uhuru.
The two teams battled it out for the presidency in the previous 2017 general polls, with the UhuRuto team beating Raila and Kalonzo as his running mate.
Raila and Uhuru’s truce would later give birth to the Building Bridges Initiative which seeks to wipe out some of the nation’s recurrent electoral problems, among them the electoral injustice.