U.S.A Senator who Brokered 2018 Handshake Meets Raila Again

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Sunday, August 13, 2023 –Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga has today Sunday August 13 met with United States of America U.S.A Senator Chris Coons.

Coons is the main architect of the 2018 Handshake that finally saw the then President Uhuru Kenyatta meet and agree to work with the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, despite their bitter fallout.

The Delaware senator, worked days and nights to make sure Uhuru and Mr. Odinga sit down and talk for the sake of the nation.

And today Sunday August 13 afternoon, Odinga confirmed meeting Coons in Nairobi where they discussed unknown details.

This being the second time, this year alone, the two have met in private to discuss emerging and outstanding political matters.

“It was a great pleasure as usual to meet and exchange notes with my friend Senator Chris Coons. An afternoon well spent,” Odinga highlighted briefly.

Coons is credited with convincing Raila and former President Uhuru Kenyatta to enter the gentleman’s agreement in March 2018 that created a fallout with Ruto.

It is not clear whether his second visit, this year, in the country will see him meet with President William Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua, or not.

In his last April visit to the country, he met Odinga and also met with DP Gachagua who dismissed any talks surrounding possibility of another Handshake with Mr. Odinga.

Gachagua would publicly reveal on Inooro Tv’s Kiririmbi show that he had dismissed Coons idea of having talks with the opposition; adding that in the USA, the current president Joe Biden did not shake hands with his main rival Donald Trump after beating him in the highly-contested elections.

Gachagua shared how Coons was at pains to explain the fallout between Biden and the 45^th President of the U.S Donald Trump; and further, how they solved or were intending to resolve their standoff.

“I told him yes, I would also want for peace to prevail in Kenya but in the US, after Trump lost and there was a lot of unrest, why did you not invite him and give him half the government?” Gachagua posed.

The DP would continue faulting Coons’ arrival in Kenya saying, if the intention was to see Raila meet with Ruto, this was not going to succeed this time around.

By then, President Ruto was away on an official tour outside the country.