Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto has left for The Hague to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday.
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| William Ruto, wearing a cap, denies fuelling violence after the 2007 election |
High-ranking government officials saw off Mr Ruto at the airport in Nairobi.
Mr Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta have been charged with crimes against humanity, which they deny.
On Sunday, Mr Kenyatta said the ICC must stagger their trials
as the constitution did not allow the two men to be out of Kenya at the
same time.
Mr Kenyatta is due to go on trial in November.
'Name and shame'
Radio boss Joshua arap Sang has also been charged with inciting and helping coordinate attacks.
He will be tried alongside Mr Ruto, and is already at The Hague, AFP news agency reports.
He too denies the charges.
The charges against the three stem from violence that broke
out after disputed elections in 2007, in which more than 1,000 people
were killed and 600,000 forced from their homes.
More than 8,000 families are still to be resettled after being displaced by the conflict, the government says.
Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto were on opposite sides
during the 2007 election and are accused of orchestrating attacks on
members of each other's ethnic groups but formed an alliance for
elections in March this year.
Analysts say the ICC prosecutions bolstered their campaign as
they portrayed it as foreign interference in Kenya's domestic affairs.
On Saturday, Mr Kenyatta issued cheques worth more than
$4,500 (£3,000) to families still living in a camp for displaced people
in Rift Valley, one of the areas worst affected by the violence.
He and Mr Ruto prayed together at a church on Sunday.
"We will work with [the] ICC, and we have always promised to do this," Mr Kenyatta told a rally of supporters.
"But it must understand that Kenya has a constitution, and Ruto and myself won't be away at the same time."
The president said the charges were "false and will be dismissed".
"The plotters of this scheme will be named and shamed. The
victory won't be Ruto's, Sang's or mine, but for Kenya," he said to
cheering crowds.
As government ministers and MPs saw him off at the Jomo
Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi on Monday, Mr Ruto said: "Gentlemen, take
care of this great nation," the local Daily Nation newspaper reports.
On Thursday, Kenya's parliament passed a motion calling for Kenya to withdraw from the ICC.
The court said the cases would continue, even if Kenya withdrew.
In May, the African Union accused the ICC of "hunting" Africans because of their race.
The ICC strongly denies this, saying it is fighting for the rights of the African victims of atrocities.
The ICC was set up in 2002 to deal with genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
The court has been ratified by 122 countries, including 34 in Africa.
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