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Parents ‘bribe chiefs to secretly practise FGM’

By VINCENT MABATUK

West Pokot, KENYA: Hundreds of girls in East Pokot are said to have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) during the August holidays despite the practice being illegal.

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