Protocol tradition was breached as President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto sat on separate tables during the national breakfast prayers at Safari Park.
The President shared his table with Chief Justice Martha Koome and Attorney General Paul Kihara while Ruto shared his table with speakers Kenneth Lusaka and Justin Muturi, who are both members of his Kenya Kwanza Alliance.
The two are the hosts of the national prayer breakfast which aims to meet, engage, interact and together pray for the nation in the company of fellow leaders from all sectors of society.
Kenyatta and Ruto do not see eye-to-eye and have in the last three public meetings avoided shaking hands.
The President has fallen out with his Deputy since the former opted to support ODM leader Raila Odinga for Presidency in the August 9 polls.
Additionally, the handshake between Kenyatta and Odinga is also the lethal injection that killed the bromance the President and his deputy displayed ahead of the 2017 polls.
This was shortly after the second stab of their joint ticket, now under a unified Jubilee Party, whose victory was declared after a heavily contested election.
The President had accused the DP of absconding duty in their second term wondering why he had not resigned to give room for him to appoint someone else.
As their reign comes to end they cannot shake hands with each other, preferring the Namaste salute whenever they bump into one another like during the funeral events for late President Mwai Kibaki two weeks ago.
The current state of their engagement is contrary to the spirit displayed during their first Cabinet upon taking over power in 2013.
