A
University of Nairobi Graduate who served in various
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| Susan Auma Mang'eni. |
organizations as a
director has brought a nightmare to the contestants
of the Busia County Woman
Rep. Race.
Susan
Auma Mang’eni who hails from Busia County is creating steers
in the political
field threatening to bring down the one tern reign of the
current incumbent
Frorence Mutua. Susan who has become ‘a darling’
of the locals is said to have
given up her job to go to her home county
to vie for a sit that requires “financially
heavy weight”
The
locals have fallen in “love” with one of their own saying that the
Current MP
has done nothing and that she has never appeared in the county since she was
elected in 2013 and that Busia has missed so many opportunities to develop and
assist its locals.
Susan is recognized in Busia County
as a community leader, a mentor, role model and candidate for Woman Rep. 2017, she
has the strength and confidence, yet responsive leader. She is respectful and
humble before community influential, yet assertive enough to take ownership of
her accomplishments in front of audiences that are skeptical of
politicians.
Although Susan is one of the strongest, and most strategic leaders in Busia she still has a long way to go since August is a little bit far, her quest for one of Kenya’s 47 newly created Woman Representatives seats in the National Assembly as a young, female candidate may be challenged by the social and cultural realities that have historically faced women vying for office in Kenya. Most people expect older, wealthy and well-established male leaders to run for national elected offices, and Susan’s entry into the race breaks many stereotypes and will test the ability of the voters to elect public leaders on their skills and ideas, and not on their gender, family backgrounds, or tribal affiliations.
Although Susan is one of the strongest, and most strategic leaders in Busia she still has a long way to go since August is a little bit far, her quest for one of Kenya’s 47 newly created Woman Representatives seats in the National Assembly as a young, female candidate may be challenged by the social and cultural realities that have historically faced women vying for office in Kenya. Most people expect older, wealthy and well-established male leaders to run for national elected offices, and Susan’s entry into the race breaks many stereotypes and will test the ability of the voters to elect public leaders on their skills and ideas, and not on their gender, family backgrounds, or tribal affiliations.
At the moment Susan is said to have “a
political love affair” with all the residents from Luhya land and Teso Land
others even claiming that she needs to settle back in Teso where she schooled
because of the good character and humility she portrays.
This race in Busia is not business
as usual, it’s about “Man of the People”—Susan Mangeni against and
individual-Florence Mutua. Others are nowhere Said a clan elder in aremit –Teso
South.
