Daadab Member of Parliament Farah Maalim has opined that United State Senator Chris Coons played a huge role in the unforeseen truce between President William Ruto and Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance leader Raila Odinga. 

Speaking on Monday, April 3 during Citizen TV's Daybreak show, Maalim said that Senator Coons held meetings with leaders from the government and the Azimio la Umoja coalition, which led to President Ruto and Raila agreeing to a truce. 

“I think the biggest game changer here is not the church, not the religious sector, not the political class. The biggest game changer here is the American senator who came Chris Coon, who went and talked to everybody and told them to stand down,” said Maalim.

The former National Assembly Deputy Speaker argued that he has been in politics for a long time and it was easy for him to read the similarity in which Ruto and Raila climbed down.

"Some of us have been around this for the longest time. Personally, I could be a skeptic person but I would want history to dare me out.

“We had problems in 1992, in 1997, there was a merger in 2002 there was a steamroller called NARC and we all thought that this is an opportunity for Kenyans to reclaim their nation because of the unity but then it collapsed in a matter of months. In 2007 we had the coalition governments which was another handshake, in 2017 we equally had a handshake,” he added.