The political tectonic plates in Kenya have shifted irrevocably as the ruling UDA and opposition ODM parties announce a historic joint Parliamentary Group meeting. The agenda: to ram through the 10-point plan of the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) report, effectively merging the government and opposition into a "Broad-Based" juggernaut.

President William Ruto and opposition supremo Raila Odinga’s forces are no longer just talking; they are legislating together. The upcoming meeting, sanctioned by Ruto himself, aims to operationalize the peace deal that ended last year’s street protests. The "COIN-10" committee, co-chaired by ODM’s Agnes Zani, is steering this ship.

The 10-Point Agenda

What are they actually agreeing on? The devil is in the details:

• Electoral Justice: Auditing the 2022 servers (a perennial demand).
• Cost of Living: Though critics argue this has taken a backseat to political deal-making.
• Boundary Delimitation: Creating new constituencies, a sweetener for MPs from both sides.

The Death of Opposition?

While the political class celebrates "cohesion," civil society is sounding the alarm. With ODM effectively bedded in with UDA, who checks the government? "We are witnessing the creation of a mono-party state in all but name," warns a governance expert. The NADCO report was meant to heal the nation, but for many Kenyans, it looks increasingly like a power-sharing pact between two elites, leaving the common wananchi as spectators in their own democracy.

As the MPs gather to sanitise this union, the question remains: Is this stability, or is it a cartel?