Kipkalya Kones
Kipkalya Kiprono Kones (22 February 1952[1] – 10 June 2008[2]) was a Kenyan politician who served as a minister during the 1990s and was briefly Minister of Roads in 2008. He was a member of the National Assembly of Kenya from 1988 to 2008.
He first attempted to win a parliamentary seat at the 1983 elections, but lost to his opponent Isaac Kipkorir Salat.[3] Following the death of Salat in 1988, Kones won the seat from Bomet Constituency at by-elections as part of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) in 1988 and then was appointed as Assistant Minister of Agriculture by President Daniel arap Moi. He was re-elected in the 1992 election and was appointed by Moi as a Minister of State in the Office of the President. In the 1997 election, he was again re-elected, and Moi appointed him as Minister for Public Works and Housing; he was subsequently moved to the posts of Minister for Research, Science and Technology and Minister for Vocational Training.[4]
Before the
He opposed family planning among smaller tribes stating those tribes should grow in numbers to equal bigger tribes.[5]
As a member of the
He was killed along with Assistant Minister of Home Affairs
President Mwai Kibaki sent his condolences and ordered flags to fly at half mast, saying that Kenya had "lost leaders of immense potential at their prime age and with a promising future." Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the ODM leader, said that it was a "sad moment"; believing that it was too late to delay the planned by-elections, he urged ODM supporters to use the by-elections as a tribute to Kones and Laboso by turning out to vote for the ODM's candidates.[9]
The "List of alleged perpetrators" of the 2007/2008 post-electoral violence of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission however lists him among the suspects on place 4 and charges him with "planning, incitement, and financing the violence".[10]
Following the death of Kones, by-elections at Bomet Constituency were held on 25 September 2008. The seat was won by Beatrice Cherono Kones of ODM, the widow of Kipkalya Kones.[11] Beatrice Kones was re-elected as the Member of Parliament, Bomet East Constituency, in the year 2017 under the Jubilee political party.[12]
References
- ^ Profile Archived 21 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine at mzalendo.com.
- ^ a b c d "Two Kenyan government ministers die", Sapa-AFP (IOL), 10 June 2008.
- ^ a b The Standard, 11 June 2008: End of an era for the king of the Kipsigis[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Kenya Mourns its legislators: Kipkalya Kones and Lorna Laboso die in a Plane Crash.", Kenya London News.
- ^ "Populism will not feed big families". Daily Nation. 19 April 2000. Archived from the original on 11 February 2001. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Patrick Wachira, "Kibaki names new Cabinet" Archived 15 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine, The Standard (Kenya), 14 April 2008.
- ^ "Odinga sworn in as Kenya PM" Archived 26 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Al Jazeera, 17 April 2008.
- ^ a b c d e "Ministers killed in Kenya crash", BBC News, 10 June 2008.
- ^ a b c d e Dominic Wabala and Fred Mukinda, "Kones killed in crash" Archived 13 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Daily Nation, 11 June 2008.
- ^ "On the Brink of the Precipice: A Human Rights Account of Kenya's Post 2007 Election Violence – FINAL REPORT" (PDF). Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. 15 August 2008. pp. 180 s. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2009.
- ^ The Standard, 26 September 2008: ODM wins in Bomet and Sotik Archived 28 September 2008 at archive.today
- ^ "Hon. Kones, Beatrice Pauline Cherono | the Kenyan Parliament Website".