From varsity lecture room to politics, she always kept her cool

Henry Osano, Joyce Laboso’s brother-in-law, weeps after viewing her body at Lee Funeral Home, in Nairobi, yesterday. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Joyce Laboso was not a politician until the death of her sister, the feisty Lorna Laboso, who perished in a plane crash in 2008.

Until then a lecturer at Egerton University, she threw herself in the murky waters of politics, winning the Sotik parliamentary seat on ODM ticket.