Kenyans have guts!! Where can I buy such?
A man on Wednesday headed on-line and dropped a proposed to one of Kenya’s most revered diplomat Ambassador Yvonne Khamati on her twitter account.
The male named Alex Kipkosgei in the short and to the point statement admitted his love and admiration for the diplomat, saying that his dream was to wife her.
It was my dream to marry @YvonneKhamati ….i am still faithful to that dream
— Mr. Ehrmantrauts (@AKipkosgei) November 6, 2018
The response was however quick and immediate from the multi-talented influencer who politely informed the ambitious Kenyan that she was already hitched and even reported the situation to her better half on the same thread!! Sorry Brah!!
Please send me your number but don’t tell my better half @laiyahaya https://t.co/LaAMz89HwX
— AMB Yvonne Khamati (@YvonneKhamati) November 6, 2018
The ‘Woman of Substance’ is currently engaged to Nigerian Oxford trained lawyer Laiwola Yahaya who popped the question to her earlier this year in what she described to her online followers as a great moment of her life which turned to be quite emotional.
“I said yes. I did. I said it, Yes!” Yvonne shared with her followers. “I cried. For the first time, tears of joy.”
At the age of 19, in 2001, she was elected to serve as the Deputy Organizing Secretary of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy – Kenya (Ford Kenya) political party, a position she kept until 2006. She was later nominated by the party to the East African Legislative Assembly in Arusha making her the youngest MP to be nominated to the house.
From August 2003 until Mach 2006, she was a research fellow at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), working in the Sustainable Development and Food Policy Division. From April 2003 until January 2008, she was Appointed by Nigeria’s President Obasanjo to serve as the Chairperson of the Youth Technical Committee for NEPAD.
In January 2008, her diplomatic career began when she was appointed by President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya as Ambassador and DPR to Ethiopia and the African Union, she later became Deputy Permanent Representative of Kenya at the United Nations office in Nairobi, Kenya, working in that capacity until September 2012.
In 2012, she has transferred to Kenya’s Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia, as the Deputy Ambassador. She has served as Director FS in the Liaison Parliamentary and Senate Directorate at the Foreign Ministry HQ, Chairperson of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of UN HABITAT, Rapporteur of the African Diplomatic Corp and is currently Director FS in the Directorate of International Conferences and Events at the Foreign Ministry.
She has a daughter, Zalika Kalani, from a previous relationship.