Linet Toto

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Linet Toto Chepkorir
County Woman Representative of Bomet County
Assumed office
8 September 2022
Personal details
Born
Linet Chepkorir

1997
Chemomul, Bomet County, Kenya
Political party United Democratic Alliance
Alma mater Tharaka Nithi University (Bachelor's Degree - Procurement)
OccupationPolitician

Linet Chepkorir Toto (born 1997) is a Kenyan politician under the UDA [1] party. After the general election on 9 August 2022, Chepkorir, better known as Toto, is presumed to be the youngest woman to be elected to the National Assembly, currently the Woman Representative in Bomet County.

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Early life

Linet Chepkorir, popularly known as Toto, was the third born child to Leonard Lang’at and Betty Lang’at in Chemomul, Bomet County. She went to Kapsimbiri Elementary School, where she sat for her KCPE and later on joined Kapsimbiri Secondary School before transferring to Siwot Secondary for her secondary education. [2] She graduated from Tharaka University in April 2021.

Political career

Linet was elected woman representative in the National Assembly for Bomet County in the 2022 general election. [3] She won 242,775 votes. [4] She is presumed to be the youngest member of the 13th Parliament of Kenya. [5]

In August 2023,, Linet Toto was sued by a former staff member in her office for alleged wrongful dismissal from service. [6]

Personal life

On 14 February 2023, she was engaged to be married. [7] She married her fiancé Godfrey Kimutai on 4 March in a traditional Kalenjin Koito ceremony. [8]

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