Pressure is beginning to pile on Raila Odinga to call off his swearing-in plan on December 12.
The US government has warned that such a move will greatly leave the country in shreds.
Yesterday, Principal Deputy assistant Secretary at the US government’s Bureau of African Affairs Donald Yamamoto issued the caution.
Yamamoto met NASA leaders including Raila, Moses Wetangula, Musalia Mudavadi and Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana representing Wiper Party boss Kalonzo Musyoka.
Kalonzo has been out of the country attending to his wife who has been hospitalized in Germany.
A source at the meeting told Daily Nation that the envoy pledged to rope in President Uhuru Kenyatta into negotiations and find a way out of the impasse between the two leaders.
It took place at US Ambassador Robert Godec residence.
“Uhuru may have been sworn in but most parts of the country do not recognize his authority because he was fraudulently elected. It against this backdrop that we are seeking justice,” said the source.
But Yamamoto is said to have warned that those who took hardline positions risked being sanctioned by the US government.
Yamamoto’s initiation of truce talks between the two rivaling parties comes after the US expressed concern with continued political enmity between Jubilee and NASA.
After President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn-in on Tuesday last week, the US in a congratulatory message said he should embark on dialogue with the opposition to heal rifts within Kenya’s 42 tribes.
US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert in a statement said: “As part of the process of addressing these tensions and strengthening institutions, we urge Kenyans to join together to hold an immediate, sustained and open national conversation to heal divisions between communities.”
Britain through its Minister for Africa Rory Stewart also made a similar call to Uhuru.
“I hope all Kenyans will recognise the need for national dialogue and healing,” Stewart said in his congratulatory statement.