Opposition leader Raila Odinga will attend the burial of former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in Ghana on Thursday.
Mr Odinga will be part of Kenya’s official delegation which will be led by National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi, who will represent President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Dennis Onyango, Raila’s spokesman, confirmed that the NASA leader traveled out of the country on Sunday to Ghana Via the United Arab Emirates.
From Accra, Raila is expected to fly to the US, where is scheduled to deliver a lecture at Duke University in North Carolina.
He will also deliver lectures at George Washington University and at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a non-profit think tank that specialises in US foreign policy and international affairs.
“The CFR lecture will take place at the organisation’s Washington, DC offices,” Onyango said.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Muturi will lead a team of government officials, including legislators and envoys accredited to Nigeria and Ghana.
Annan died on August 8 in Bern, Switzerland aged 80. His remains landed at Kotoko International Airport yesterday awaiting a state burial. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was the first black African UN secretary general and served between 1997 and 2006.
He is credited for mediation during the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya, that led to the formation of the Grand Coalition goverment with Mwai Kiabki and Raila.