NASA leader Raila Odinga and the US House of Representative director Gregory B. Simpkins, November 9, 2017. [Photo|The ODM Party]NASA leader Raila Odinga met the US House of Representative director Gregory B. Simpkins ahead of his keynote address to the house on Thursday (today) morning. Odinga left Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon for Washington, DC, where he is scheduled to meet various leaders and address a public forum at CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies. Odinga was scheduled to hold meetings with House and Senate Congressional Committee officials among other leaders Wednesday.He is scheduled to address CSIS on Thursday morning and hold more meetings with other leaders and officials of civil society organisations later in the afternoon.At the CSIS, Odinga will speak on 'Overcoming Kenya’s Political Crisis and Advancing Democracy, Rule of Law and Stability'.The opposition leader is scheduled to return to Nairobi over the weekend.He is privileged to be among the very few African leaders to address a joint sitting of the US Congress and Senate committees.

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