Strength Of A Woman: Peris Tobiko

She was written off as a loser even before she hit the campaign trail to seek the mandate of Kajiado east voters to represent them in parliament. Elders said her clamor for leadership would attract a curse…but she said she had faith in God…..then came her pregnancy that her political opponents used against her during the campaigns asking voters not to elect a woman who soon would be headed for a 3 month maternity break….at the End Peris Tobiko, the first Maasai woman to become a member of parliament carried the day. On the strength of a woman … The story of an MP who asserts that women should never allow their dreams to remain caged in outdated cultural beliefs.