Kipkalya Kones

Kipkalya Kiprono Kones (22 February 1952 – 10 June 2008) was a Kenyan politician who served as a minister during the 1990s and was briefly 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 was beaten by Isaac Kipkorir Salat. Following the death of Salat in 1988, Kones won the seat from Bomet Constituency at by-elections as part of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) in 1988 and then was appointed as 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 Minister for Vocational Training.

Before the 2002 election, he fell out with president Moi and joined the Muungano wa Mageuzi movement led by James Orengo. For the 2002 elections, Kones switched his affiliation to Ford-People, where he was Hon.Simon Nyachae's - one of the 2002 presidential candidate - running mate but lost the seat to Nick Salat, son of former MP Isaac Kipkorir Salat who represented KANU, the party Kones had recently left. However, he was appointed by Forum for the Restoration of Democracy for a nominated seat and thus remained a member of parliament. He was also appointed assistant minister for Public Works.

He opposed family planning among smaller tribes stating those tribes should grow in numbers to equal bigger tribes

As a member of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), he again won the seat from Bomet in the December 2007 parliamentary election. Kones was appointed as Minister of Roads in the grand coalition Cabinet, which was named on 13 April 2008 and included both the ODM and the Party of National Unity (PNU); the Cabinet was sworn in on 17 April.

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