Mother and son lock horns in the battle for Bomet East

Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organization, MYO, Chairperson Rahab Mwikali, left and a MYO National Vice Chairperson Beatrice Kones at a press conference after a National Steering committee meeting in Nairobi on friday, feb 18, 2016. PHOTO: JONAH ONYANGO/STANDARD.

Since independence, the Bomet East parliamentary seat has alternated between the families of Kipkalya Kones and Isaac Salat.

That cycle would be broken in 2013, with the entry of Bomet East MP Bernard Bett, who kicked the two families out into the political cold.