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Kingsley UGO Okenwa

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Author/Ghostwriter/Journalist

Katılım Ekim 2009
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Did You KNOW? "KENYAN POLICEMAN WAS STONED TO DEATH FOR RESCUING SOME #FGM VICTIMS!" In December 2023, Police in Elgeyo Marakwet county, in the Rift Valley region of Kenya, had rescued about 70 girls (who had been forced to undergo FGM) and taken them to a hospital when a mob of
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My #FGM Heartbreak💔 “What Would You Do If You Were Me?” Mrs Mariama Recounts: I am a 35-year-old university lecturer who had decided that my two daughters would not be circumcised as I and my sisters had been. My daughters were born while I and my husband were studying abroad
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Did I Do Wrong?🤷🏽‍♀️ Mrs Akila Recounts: "My mother-in-law once visited and instructed me to have my one-year-old daughter circumcised BUT I lied that FGM had been done on her as a 'birth package' in the hospital. But two years later, she visited again and realised that she hadn't
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My #FGM Heartbreak💔 "I Survived But My Two Elders Sisters Bled To Death After We Were Circumcised - They Said, It Was Their Fault They Died!" Mrs Halimatu Recounts: "I was born in Liberia but was adopted by a Muslim couple from Sierra Leone when I was three years old. One day,
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An APPEAL For $100 To Print Our Swahili Anti-FGM Handbooks! In December 2023, some men stormed a police station and stoned Cpl Mushote Boma to death for rescuing some #FGM victims. We were propelled by this heartbreaking incident to translate our handbooks to Swahili. We want
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The Imam is Momodou Lamin Touray - he is a prominent Gambian Islamic scholar and leader, best known as the former President of The Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC) and a former Imam of the State House Mosque. Let's #EndFGM 🙏🏽👇🏾
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My #FGM Torture🔥 "I Got Burnt As I Was Made To Sit On Fire To Heal From FGM!" Kaafiyo Farah Recounts: "I was 7 years old when they came to our home to cut me. It was a traumatic experience for me. Not only were my genitals cut and sewn up in the most horrific way, I also had to
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My #FGM Heartbreak "I Had Just Given Birth 5 Days Earlier BUT My Husband Sent Me Packing Because I Refused FGM On Our 11-Year-Old Daughter After He Found A Suitor For Her!" Jennifer Kibon Recounts "I was 13 years old and a pupil at a local primary school in Baringo County, when
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My #FGM Experience "They Told Me To Shut Up, That Everything Would Be Alright..." Masooma Ranalvi Recounts: I am from the Dawoodi Bohra community in #India. I was 7 years old when my grandmother traded the promise of an ice cream for the edge of a razor blade! My grandmother,
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Did You KNOW? "We Can't Stop #FGM Because Our Men Are Sexually Weak!"🤦🏾 In 2016, Elhamy Agina (an #Egyptian MP) said in parliament that women must undergo FGM to help curb male "sexual weakness". He also claimed FGM would help reduce women's "sexual appetites"! He added: "We are
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VIDEO: An Imam in Gambia explains why #FGM is Islamic and why women should be circumcised. He says, "Women who have clitorises suffer from irritating itches and want to scratch their clitorises all the time!" And that "Clitorises make women leak water from their private parts!"
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My #FGM Torture💔 "I Was 6 Years Old But I Was Tied To A Tree While Two Women Held My Legs Apart For The Circumciser To Cut And Sew Up My Vagina!" Mrs Ruqiyo Recounts: "I still remember it because it is a painful experience that registers in your brain for life! I was only six
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My #FGM Torture "I Was 9 And Pleaded With My Mum Not To Allow Them Sew Up My Vagina But She Said She Had No Option!" Hamda Recounts: "I was nine years old. My mum wanted me to have FGM. I said to her: ‘Please don’t do FGM on me’, but she said she 'didn’t have any other option,
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My #FGM Heartbreak "I Was 5 Years Old When My Leg Was Dislocated While Some Women Were Performing FGM On Me - I've Been Limping Since Then!" Nastehe Abubakar Recounts: "I was 5 years old when I was circumcised; a group of women wrestled me to the ground and tore my clothes. As I
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My #FGM TORTURE🔥 “I Was 6 When A Hot Iron Rod Was Used To Scorch My Vagina After It Was Cut And Sewn Up!" Rahma Wako Recounts: “I was cut and sewn at the age of six. After one week, they used a hot iron rod to scorch the place where they cut. It was very painful and I took 40
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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary To everyone that's has sustained this advocacy for 8 years, we say a big THANK YOU to you all. This advocacy won't have gone this far without your donations, likes, reposts, comments and quotes on our posts. THANK YOU🙏🏽
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My #FGM Torture "I Had Haematocolpos (Accumulation Of Trapped Menstrual Blood) From FGM But My Parents Thought I Was Pregnant And Beat Me Up For Days!" Angavu Oni Recounts: "When I was 12 years old, my mother told me that it was time for my circumcision. She said that if a girl
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@thegirdlengr Please donate if you can! This organization does good work towards helping end the barbaric practice of female castration aka #FGM.
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