Kenya’s Road Minister Hon Kipkalya Kones MP Bomet (ODM), Assistant minister in the Office of the Vice- President Hon Lorna Laboso MP Sotik (ODM), pilot Schnerr Christopher and Constable Kenneth Bett were killed in air crash on the afternoon of 11th June 2008.

The members of parliament were flying to Chepkembe Airstrip at James Finlays Tea Estate, Kericho. Their plane a Cessna 210E plane crashed in the forested Kojong’a area of Nairegi-Enkare, Narok District.

We pray and express our sympathies to the families of Hon Kones, Hon Laboso, Pilot Schnerr, Constable Bett and the constituents of Sotik and Bomet at this moment of great loss.

William Ang’awa and Kenya Elections Study Group www.kenyaelections.com