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Former Matungu Member of Parliament Joseph Wamukoya (
pictured) is dead.
He was elected on a Kanu ticket.
The family said the former MP has been ailing for a long time and has occasionally been receiving treatment at a Bungoma hospital.
KEEP READING The MP has been sick for years and today he rested peacefully at our home, she said.
Wamukoya was born in Marinda village of Matungu in 1942.
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He served in late President Daniel Moi’s government when he was appointed assistant minister in the Ministry of Lands and Settlement in June 2001.
Slayqueens and sidechicks in panic as MPs pass law barring them from inheriting their property after death
Members of Parliament have overwhelmingly supported an amendment bill seeking to bar secrete husbands and wives claiming recognition and property inheritance when a person dies.
The proposal to amend the Law of Succession Act, which is sponsored by Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma wants inheritance to be limited to legally married couples, their children and extended family.
“The principal object of this Bill is to amend the Law of Succession Act to give legitimate dependants of a deceased person a claim and a right in the deceased’s intestate estate. The main aim of the Bill is to avoid situations where opportunistic schemers successfully claim a stake in a deceased person’s estate hence disenfranchising the legitimate heirs of the deceased,” Mr Kaluma said.