Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi waded into the controversy of President William Ruto's attendance of the funeral service of the late Pope Francis at the Vatican, even after he had dispatched National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula to represent the country.
Mudavadi said the President was set to attend the funeral but the challenge was for him to conclude his engagements in China early enough to be in Vatican for the Pope's funeral but he managed to do that and it was regrettable that some Kenyans were making jokes out of the matter.
Mudavadi, who appeared before the Senate National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations Committee, said that it was responding to Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna, who had raised the matter, which has been subject to jokes on social media. "The President had planned for the China trip earlier, the worry was that he could not be able to conclude his busy schedule on time for the Pope's funeral and designated the National Assembly Speaker to represent him, but he managed and arrived on time for the ceremony," said Mudavadi.
Mudavadi at the same time said that it was in the best interest of the country that we worked with China as one country since the country stands to gain immensely.
