Senator Kipchumba Murkomen | |
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Majority Leader of the Senate | |
In office 31 August 2017 –11 May 2020 | |
Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet | |
In office 28 March 2013 –27 October 2022 | |
Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Roads,Transport and Public works | |
In office 27 October 2022 –current | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1979 (age 44–45) Elgeyo-Marakwet,Kenya |
Political party | United Democratic Alliance |
Spouse | Gladys Wanjiru Kipchumba |
Children | 4 |
Alma mater | University of Nairobi (LL.B) Washington College of Law (LL.M) The University of Pretoria (LL.M) |
Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen (born 12 March 1979) is a Kenyan lawyer. He is the Cabinet Secretary for Roads,Transport,and Public Works in Kenya. He served as the senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County from 2013 to 2022.
He is the son of Johana Murkomen Kanda and Mama Margaret. [1]
Murkomen studied at Chawis Primary School in Embobut Forest,Marakwet East until 1993 when he sat for his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam. He was not satisfied exams results and decided to retake the exam in 1994. He later joined St Joseph’s High School Kitale and transferred to St Patrick's High School Iten,where he sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exam.
In the year 2000 Murkomen joined the University of Nairobi,Parkland Campus and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 2004. While studying,he was elected chairman of Fellowship of Christian Unions’National Students Executive Council. He was later awarded a scholarship to study a master’s in law at the University of Pretoria,South Africa. He further studied at the American University Washington College of Law in United States. [2]
Murkomen was first elected as Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County in 2013 on a United Republican Party (URP) ticket. [3] [4] He vied for the same seat during the 2017 elections,this time on a Jubilee party ticket and was re-elected to a second term. Murkomen was elected majority senate leader in 2013,but he was later replaced by West Pokot Senator Samuel Poghisio as the Senate Majority Leader. in 2020. [5]
Before his nomination as a cabinet minister, [6] Murkomen had been elected for the third time to be the senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County in the 2022 general elections in a UDA party ticket. Murkomen won the seat with a 141,091 votes against his competitor former Elgeyo-Marakwet County governor Alex Tolgos who vied under the Jubilee Party and came second. He resigned as the senator in order to take the position of Cabinet Secretary. [7]
Murkomen is married to Gladys Wanjiru Kipchumba and is a father to three sons and a daughter. [8]
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