Joyce Laboso
| Joyce Laboso | |
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| Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya | |
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Assumed office 28 March 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Farah Maalim |
| Constituency | Sotik |
| Member of Parliament for Sotik Constituency | |
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Assumed office 7 October 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Lorna Laboso |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Residence | Bomet County |
| Profession | Jubilee Party Bomet County Gubernatorial seat |
| Website | joycelaboso.com |
Dr. Joyce Cherono Laboso is the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya. She is the Governor-elect of Bomet County, and is set to be the second Governor of Bomet County after defeating Isaac Rutto in the August 8, 2017 General Elections.
She was elected to the Parliament of Kenya to represent the Sotik Constituency in a by-election held on September 25, 2008. She succeeded her sister, Lorna Laboso, who died in a plane crash. A nominee of the Orange Democratic Movement, she beat 11 other contestants after she garnered 23,880 with a vote margin of 10,000 over her closest challenger, retired Brigadier Alexander Sitienei (a former aide to Daniel arap Moi) who received 13,843 votes.
She is the ACP Co-president of the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.[1]
She worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at Egerton University and served as a Commissioner of the National Commission on Gender and Development.[2]
References
- ↑ "ACP-EU". www.europarl.europa.eu.
- ↑ Makiche, Edwin (April 23, 2013). "The rise and rise of Joyce Laboso". standardmedia.co.ke