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Kubai Iringo

Kenyan politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ47494314 ↗
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Kubai Cyprian Iringo is a Kenyan politician and diplomat currently serving as Kenyan ambassador to Somalia. He was a member of the 11th parliament of Kennya elected from Igembe Central Constituency on the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and with the support of CORD Coalition. He served on the house committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and spoke 462 times on the floor of the house during the 11th parliament. In December 2013, his party, ODM threatened to expel him and a fellow MP Mpuru Aburi from the party for expressing willingness to work with Jubilee Coalition government. He was appointed Kenyan ambassador to Somalia in October 2023. Iringo is a recipient of Shujaa Parliamentarian Award for “Championing Wananchi in matters of health” (2015) given by Mzalendo Trust.

He graduated from Kenya Methodist University in 2016.

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The public source identifies “Kubai Iringo” as kenyan politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kubai, Iringo and Kenyan.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2023, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kubai, Iringo and Kenyan providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kubai Iringo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.