FGM Survivor Narrates Her Harrowing Experience (AUDIO)

Gidi and Ghost had the privilege of hosting two brave ladies; Virginia Lekumisa and Chesang Domtilla who shed more light on female genital mutilation in the country, a thorny issue which has for decades attracted both national and international outcry.

Practiced in different parts of the country where the heinous FGM act has taken its roots, the two women have been on a tough journey on educating and sensitizing the affected communities of the dangers of the tradition, which many still view as legal and traditionally accepted.

Narrating the experience she went through when her parents forced her to undergo the cut, Miss Lekumisa took the presenters on a painful journey which completely changed her entire life.

"I am yet to heal from the harrowing experience till now." Said Lekumisa. "The experience affected me both physically and emotionally, I still suffer from the seething pain more than 20 years later.

I cannot stand the sight of blood, the ugly events turned me into a blood phobic and till now I wonder what I will do in case I suffer a deep cut. " Narrated an emotional Lekumisa.

Domtilla, who's an anti FGM activist, also took the presenters through her daily struggles in her quest to help wipe out the mentality of Kenyans in the affected communities who view the vice as a form of transition or graduation to adulthood while some use the act as a form of promoting virginity.

Listen to the clip below as the brave ladies take us through their sad experiences.

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