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Empower us to tell our own stories, FGM survivors plead

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Makkah Abdula Delta girls initiative chairlady and an FGM survivor talks to a group of women on how to end the vice. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

When Okon Abdi was four years old, she went through a very hurtful and painful experience that has stuck in her mind to adulthood.

"When I was two years old, I contracted polio which led to a lifelong disability. As I grew up and came to understand what had happened, I kept hoping my parents would seek alternatives on how I could be treated but, unbelievably, they subjected me to FGM," narrates Okon, who is now a 30-year-old mother of one.

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