A mother, Mrs. Vivian Ogechi Nwanebu, from Umuoku,
Umuazalaukwu in Imo State, said she was leaving her area to prevent some
traditionalists from carrying out female genital mutilation on her twin
daughters.....
Speaking to Vanguard, yesterday, in Owerri,
Nwanebu, said that in the community, children from the age of 10 are due for
female genital mutilation. Her reason for abandoning her home was that her twin
daughters have reached the age of circumcision and the life of her children was
more important to her. According to Ogechi, “my community normally circumcises
female children from the age of 10 years and above. It is now their turn and
they are calling for them and we are running away. “Our fear is that our twin
daughters, Treasure Chidimma and Favour Chiemela Nwanebu, might be harmed
health wise and that is why we are working hard to take them away, where their
eyes will not see our children.”
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