Kipkalya kones biography of abraham
Kipkalya Kones, Minister for Roads of Kenya.
Kipkalya kones biography of abraham
Kipkalya Kones
Kenyan politician
Kipkalya Kiprono Kones (22 February 1952[1] – 10 June 2008[2]) was a Kenyan politician who served as a minister during the 1990s and briefly as 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 a by-election as part of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) in 1988.
He was appointed an 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 Mi