A last-minute decision by President Uhuru Kenyatta not to travel to Canada and the United States for crucial international meetings caught the government hierarchy by surprise and left Deputy President William Ruto scrambling to travel to represent the President.
Mr Kenyatta had on Wednesday travelled to Narok to attend the burial of Maasai kingpin William ole Ntimama and was scheduled to travel to Montreal, Canada, that evening before heading to New York.
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