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Sabaot Iron lady Janepher Masis takes final bow after long political career

Jennifer Masis when she decamped to JAP and declared interest in Trans Nzoia Women Rep seat. The first Sabaot female politician passed away on 22/08/2016. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

The curtain has fallen on Janepher Masis whose entry into Trans-Nzoia County politics over a decade and half ago stirred the patriarchal Sabaot community, which had never produced a woman elected leader.

Ms Masis, passed on early this week at a hospital in Nairobi.

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