Vice president of kenya kalonzo musyoka biography

10th Vice President of Kenya

Not to be confused with Kennedy Musyoka Kalonzo.

Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka (born 24 December 1953)^[1] is a Kenyan politician who was the tenth Vice-President of Kenya from 2008 to 2013.

Musyoka served in the government under the late President Daniel arap Moi as the Secretary of Kenya African National Union party (1980-1988), Assistant Minister for Works (1986-1988), Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly (1988-1992), Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1993 until 1998, Minister of Education (1998-2001); and subsequently, under the late President Mwai Kibaki, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 2003 to 2004, then Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005.^[2] He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2007 presidential election, after which he was appointed vice-president by Kibaki in January 2008.

Kalonzo Musyoka is the party leader of the Wiper Democratic Movement (formerly Orange Democratic Movement-