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Retired nurses accused of circumcising girls

Retired nurses have taken over circumcising girls in Embu after old women quit the practice, an elder has claimed.

Mbeere Ngome Council of Elders Coordinator Njeru Mairani said medics who left their jobs in hospitals had set base in remote villages in Mbeere to tap into the ready female circumcision market.

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