[1] A member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), he was elected with 72% of the vote[citation needed].

[2] Kipoi was inaugurated as the Member of Parliament of Bubulo West on 17 May 2011,[citation needed] after defeating incumbent Fred Bukeni, former minister Wanzusi Wasieba and others in the NRM primaries.

Kipoi was arrested in December 2012[6] and charged with treason on the grounds that he was recruiting personnel from Uganda as well as Congolese rebels as the basis for a potential coup.

[7] In June 2013, he was arrested separately on charges of car theft, before apparently fleeing to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) while on bail.

[10] In February 2018, Kipoi was arrested in Botswana, charged with four counts of obtaining money by false pretences[11] and extradited to Uganda in early March.