Leah Nachere becomes the first elected woman in Turkana
Published on: August 26, 2017 02:03 (EAT)
Her rivals had the gift for what you could call kizungu mingi. Their common denominator was to mock her for daring to contest a seat she couldn’t even write. But when the last ballot for Lake Zone ward in Turkana County had been counted, Leah Nachere was a clear winner. she couldn’t even understand the gap between the runners up and herself because the 67-year-old woman is illiterate. But as Anne maw the reports, Leah is educated in the real language that matters in elections, the art of winning.
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