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The first female Maasai chief

Margaret Nadupoyi Lemayan: First female chief in the Maa community   [PHOTO  BY STANDARD]

Kajiado,Kenya: On the scorched hills of Oldorko in Olkiramatian East in Kajiado County the wind of change is blowing. The same wind that handed the county its first ever woman MP has given this area its first woman chief.

Margaret Nadupoyi Lemayan joins the roll of honour of women leaders in Kajiado. Ahead of her at the high table is the first Maasai woman MP Peris Tobiko, MP for Kajiado East constituency, elected in 2013.

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