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Thank God you can pee normally

Michael Owino (pictured) hopes that someday, he will lead a normal life. Today, he continues to nurse a wound that can only be solved by an expensive operation to correct his urethra.

I was involved in a road accident in 2002 when I was 10. I was walking from school, somewhere in Maseno, when a lorry swept me off the road as it sped away. I landed on a huge rock which injured my genitals. A good Samaritan carried me home from the accident scene since I couldn’t walk.

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