Linet Toto: From selling mtumba clothes, working as a house maid to Parliament

Linet Chepkorir, popularly known as Toto preparing Tea at home at Chemomul village in Bomet County on April 19, 2022. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

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."