Deputy President William Ruto on Thursday last week toured Kiambu County where he launched different development projects including road constructions and rehabilitation.
However, conspicuously absent was vocal Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria who has been at the forefront calling on Kenyans to elect the DP when 2022 comes.
The MP was in the US where he had jetted to convince American businessmen and women to invest in his constituency's health sector.
Kuria is on Friday expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with a top US nursing institution that will partner with the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) in training nurses.
The MP on Friday last week visited Dr Stephen Cavanaugh who is the dean and professor of the College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst ahead of this week's signing of the agreement.
The two KMTC branches in Gatundu that will collaborate with the US institution include Mutungura and Gatundu Town campuses.
Kuria said the partnership will provide a platform through which Kenyan nursing students, after graduation, will get work opportunities in the US, Kenya, UK, Australia, Canad and the Middle East.
The MP is among leaders from Central Kenya who are pushing for Ruto to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2022.
He has been accompanying Ruto in almost all his countrywide tours.