Bonaya Adhi Godana (September 2, 1952 in Dukana,

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– April 10, 2006 in

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, Kenya) was the foreign minister of

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from January 1998 until 2001. From 2002 to his death in 2006 he was the deputy leader of the opposition

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(KANU) party. He was the Member of Parliament for

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. He died on April 10, 2006, in a Kenya Air Force plane crash. 13 other people were also killed in the crash while three survived. Among the other casualties were several other government officials including two assistant cabinet ministers who were political rivals of Godana. The politicians and religious leaders were on a mission to secure peace along the

n border. A decade earlier, on July 28, 1996, he survived a helicopter crash at the same Marsabit airstrip. He graduated as Master of Law from

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in 1976, and PHD of International Law from

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in Geneva in 1984. He was first elected to the

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in 1988.

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