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Raila-Ruto talks waste of time, Kioni claims as Karua warns of protests

Dialogue talks Committee Members led by National Assembly Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi, Nyamira Senator Okongo Omogeni, Bungoma Woman Representative Catherine Wabilianga, Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwa, Embu Governor Cecil Mbarire and EALA MP Hassan Omar at Bomas of Kenya on August 21, 2023. [Samson Wire, Standard]

The much-hyped national dialogue, which has been hailed as Kenya's silver bullet to end the country's political and economic woes, has lost its luster to some politicians who are already talking of going back to the streets for demonstrations.

Others are viewing it as a wooden rocking chair that has been keeping Kenyans at ease but will take them nowhere.

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