It now emerges that President Uhuru Kenyatta is set for a honorary doctoral degree from the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology on Friday.
Uhuru will tour Siaya County on Friday after his visit of Kisumu on Thursday, in the company of opposition leader Raila Odinga.
At the function at the University, Raila will also be awarded a similar honour.
The institution is named after the latter's father Oginga Odinga who was the nation's first Vice President and iconic opposition figure.
The awards will be in appreciation of their joint efforts towards the realization of peace in the nation, courtesy of their March 9 truce which cooled the nation down.
The duo will most likely be crowned by the university Vice Chancellor Prof Stephen Agong'.
The truce came at a time when the nation was split down the middle as a result of the two leaders' bitter enmity following their August 2017 presidential contest.
Accepting the honour earlier on Tuesday, Raila confirmed the information, saying that the institution has acknowledged their efforts for a peaceful nation.
"We shall be at the University and have humbly accepted the award following our March 9 handshake that ended weeks of heightened tension in the country,” he is quoted by the Nation.
He was speaking in an interview with a local vernacular studio.
While in Siaya, Uhuru is also expected to launch water projects funded by the world bank, this being one of the goodies he will be presenting to his former critics.
Uhuru is also expected to stop over at Raila's Opoda Farm in Bondo, before proceeding to the Oginga Odinga Symposium in Sakwa Bondo to pay homage to the departed leader who died in 1994.