Saturday marked exactly one year since President Uhuru Kenyatta reached out for a truce with former chief rival and critic opposition leader Raila Odinga.
One year later, the handshake seems to be already succeeding in achieving its purpose, and has consequently enjoyed massive appreciation from Kenyans and politicians.
Considering that it came at a time the nation was heavily polarised as a result of the political tensions, the reunion seems to have returned calm.
It came at a time when Raila had vowed to frustrate Uhuru's government after crying foul in the presidential election claiming that he had been rigged out.
It was also marred with allegations of exclusion, both leaders openly admitting that they kept their allies and camps in the dark to keep off hardliners.
This, they said, was a mechanism to exclude hardliners who might have frustrated their reconciliation and kept the nation stalled in its problems.
The truce gave birth to the Building Bridges Initiative and the 14-member BBI taskforce given the role of crisscrossing the nation collecting Kenyans' views on the best way forward.
The plan, according to both leaders, is to bring to force ideas which might lead to changes that will ensure that the nation avoids political clashes going forward.
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