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Bomet County Women Representative-elect Linet Chepkorir aka Toto's journey to parliament has not been rosy. In a recent interview with Jeff Koinange, Toto revealed that she took on odd jobs before she joined politics. The 24-year-old Chuka University graduate sold mitumba clothes, chips mwitu and also worked as a house-maid prior to the elections. She said:
"I graduated last year having pursued Procurement at Tharaka Nithi University college. I was employed in Bomet town, I used to sell mitumba clothes for a month, from there I went to sell chips, I used to earn two hundred shillings per day. From there I was a maid for a month then I thought of vying for Women Rep."
The self-motivated leader depended on donations from well-wishers to fund her campaigns. She revealed that she has been a leader all through her school life and still wanted to join politics after school.
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