Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya Coalition presidential candidate Raila Odinga has cut short his 5-day United States official visit to attend the burial of Kenya’s third President Mwai Kibaki which is scheduled for Saturday, April 30.
In a press release by Raila Presidential Campaign Secretariat Press Secretary Dennis Onsarigo, Odinga will be back in the country on Wednesday, April 27.
“Azimio la Umoja -One Kenya Coalition flag-bearer Rt Hon Raila Odinga will cut short his ongoing US trip and travel back home on Wednesday ahead of the burial of the former President Mwai Kibaki,” Onsarigo said in a short statement.
Raila was supposed to end his US trip on Friday, April 29.
He will arrive in the country on the day when public viewing of the body of the late President, who is lying in state at Parliament buildings, concludes.
Friday, April 29, has since been declared a holiday ahead of his burial on Saturday, April 30.
Kibaki died at Nairobi Hospital on Friday, April 22, aged 90 years.
