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Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen

Date of Birth: 1979


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Ruto and Odinga loyalists battle over election body

Overseeing the three by-elections on 5 January caused by President Ruto's decision to elevate Garissa Township MP Aden Duale Kandara MP Alice Wahome and Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen to cabinet is likely to be the final act of the Chebukati commission...


Loyalty trumps all in Ruto's cabinet

Garissa Township MP Aden Duale another Ruto loyalist will become Defence Minister should parliament approve him while Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen a key player in Ruto's inner circle bags the Roads Transport and Public Works ministry...


Ruto plays the economy blame-game

But confident of receiving cabinet jobs are Aden Duale and Kipchumba Murkomen the former majority leaders of the National Assembly and Senate who lost their positions in 2020 at the height of the power struggle between Ruto and Kenyatta over control of the Jubilee party...


Pricing Ruto's promises

Former House Majority Leader Aden Duale Senator Kipchumba Murkomen (Elgeyo Marakwet) and Susan Kihika (governor-elect of Nakuru) are all key Ruto allies who lost their positions during the power struggle between Ruto and Kenyatta for control of the Jubilee party in the last mandate...


The Kenyatta-Odinga deal starts fraying

In what party insiders see as youthful effrontery Johnson joined forces with other young senators across the aisle notably ODM's Ledama Olekina Wiper's Mutula Kilonzo Jr and key Ruto ally Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen to defeat the government's attempts at pushing through the motion...


The one-party statesmen

At a hurriedly convened Jubilee senators' meeting at State House on 11 May a clutch of pro-Kenyatta senators endorsed the removal of Senate majority leader Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen and the Chief Whip Susan Wakarura Kihika...


Building shaky bridges

Jubilee's Senate majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen tore into Mohammed for favouring ODM delegates and pro-Odinga speakers allied to the Tanga Tanga faction...


A killing joke

Also Ruto's political supporters among the Kalenjin led by Senators Kipchumba Murkomen and Aaron Cheruyot and among the Bukusu branch of the Luhya under Sirisia MP John Waluke persist in believing a genuine assassination plot against Ruto was being hatched at La Mada...


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