With a guaranteed second term in office, President Uhuru Kenyatta is staring at a daunting 5 years ahead before he retires.
His swearing-in is set for next week Tuesday, in Kasarani.
With the second term, local and international players in Kenya’s politics have urged the President to embark on a national healing process.
Jubilee’s own Aden Duale (Leader of Majority in Parliament) on Monday said Uhuru should immediately draw course for healing the nation.
Duale who is also Garissa Township MP spoke outside the Supreme Court after Chief Justice David Maraga upheld Uhuru’s victory in the October 26 elections.
“Once he (Uhuru) is sworn in, the President will bear the onus of uniting the nation, bringing all communities together in an all-inclusive government that represents all the shades of our ethnic diversity and regions,” said Duale.
Even before the Supreme Court ruling, Senate Majority leader had spoken on national healing.
He stated: “I believe President Uhuru Kenyatta will form a government that unites the country and will have a representation from all parts of the country.”
US-based Carter Centre steered by ex-State Secretary John Kerry also appealed to the President to find a solution towards ending tribal and ethnic rift that is eating up the country.
The centre in a statement on Monday noted that with the Supreme Court ruling upholding Uhuru’s victory, the plague of tribalism may continue eating up Kenya if quick action is not taken.
“President Uhuru Kenyatta, who has a fresh mandate to lead all Kenyans, should re-initiate the national dialogue that culminated in the 2010 Constitution.”
Uhuru’s first term has been chided by the opposition for excluding certain communities from power.
NASA argues that Jubilee government is a government of only two tribes.
However, Jubilee’s Winnie Guchu said they are mapping out a unification strategy.
“We will sit together and see how we can put all Kenyans from all parts of the country together to see if we can consolidate more people,” she said as quoted by the Star.