Deputy President William Ruto is on Saturday, February 26, expected to fly out of the country for a 10-day trip to the United States and the United Kingdom.
Multiple sources confirmed the visit by the UDA party leader will include high-level meetings with government officials, elected leaders, global policy think tanks and Kenyans in the diaspora.
According to William Ruto’s International Relations Advisor Ababu Namwamba, the trip was occasioned by invites from senior government officials and top policy institutes of the two nations.
Ruto would be in Washington, D.C. and London honouring invites by senior government officials and top policy institutes.
“In Washington, DC the deputy president is scheduled to meet among others, officials of the state department and the pentagon as well as the US Government National Security Council Advisor,” Ababu said.
According to a tweet by the Carnegie Africa programme, which is organising the trip, Ruto will on March 2 hold discussions with the US House Foreign Affairs sub-committee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights representative Karen Bass on politics and policy.
On March 4, the DP will meet Kenyans at Mt Calvary Baptist, in Washington, and then travel to the UK to deliver a speech at Kings College in London where he will meet senior UK government officials.
“In London, Ruto will meet senior UK Government officials, visit the National Counter-Terrorism Centre and speak at the both the Commonwealth secretariat and the Royal Institute of International Affair,
“He will also engage the Kenyan Diaspora in the UK and pay a courtesy call on the Archbishop of Canterbury,” Namwamba said.
William Ruto’s trip comes barely hours after Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Ambassador Macharia Kamau on Thursday, February 24, said the deputy president had been cleared to travel.
In August 2021, William Ruto was blocked from flying to Uganda after waiting for five hours at the Wilson Airport for clearance.
