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Homabay County Governor Gladys Wanga and her Deputy Oyugi Magwanga walk to launch of monthly cleanup exercise on October 17,2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

When its implementation began in 2013, many wanted to see how devolution would impact women leadership in Nyanza and Western Kenya.

It came at a time when male chauvinism was at its peak, and prospects of women out-muscling men to clinch elective seats faced several bottlenecks. In Luo Nyanza, so bad was the situation that no woman had replicated the feats trailblazers in women leadership; former MPs Phoebe Asiyo (Karachuonyo) and late Grace Onyango (first woman MP), set in early 1970s and 1990s.

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