The death of Bomet governor Joyce Laboso   shocked  many but what many do know know is the role her late sister played for her to be a politician.

Joyce who was at one time a member of parliament for Sotik, a position she got after her sister Lorna Laboso passed away  in a plane crash.

Lorna Chepkemoi Laboso was a Kenyan politician of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).

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Lorna Laboso  was briefly a Member of Parliament and Assistant Minister in 2008.

She was killed along with Minister of Roads Kipkalya Kones in a plane crash on June 10, 2008.

The plane carrying  Laboso and Kones, a Cessna light aircraft, had taken off from Wilson Airport in Nairobi.

They had been flying to  in the Rift Valley to help with the organization of logistics for ODM candidate Benjam in Langat in the by-election that was scheduled to be held in Ainamoi Constituency on June 11.

 In addition to Kones and Laboso, the pilot and a security guard were killed.

Following the death of Laboso, a by-election was held in the Sotik Constituency on September 25, 2008. The seat was won by Laboso's sister, Joyce Cherono Laboso for the ODM.