Ebonyi Stakeholders Vow To Clamp Down On Perpetrators Of Female Genital Mutilation

Stakeholders successful the 17 communities successful Izzi section authorities country of Ebonyi State person vowed to guarantee they food retired perpetrators of Female Genital Mutilation FGM) and their collaborators successful the country for capable punishment and prosecution.

The stakeholders successful an statement reached aft a one-day gathering to physique statement connected ending FGM successful the section authorities country condemned the signifier of FGM successful the LGA, describing it arsenic not lone harmful but a gross usurpation of the close of girls and women.

The lawsuit which was organised by the Ebonyi State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development successful collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was portion of activities successful their ongoing associated project, tagged: “EndFGM successful Izzi LGA of Ebonyi State.”

The stakeholders includes accepted rulers, assemblage leaders, instrumentality enforcement agencies, leaders of assemblage vigilante groups, arsenic good arsenic assemblage wellness workers.

A participant, Celina Ogboso, sharing her acquisition said FGM complications led her relation, who she identified arsenic Nneka, into labour issues resulting to aggregate inactive births.

“Some years back, I lived with my niece, Nneka. She was circumcised during her aboriginal years of maturity. She bled truthful overmuch that she fainted severally and the colour of her tegument changed.

“Though the bleeding was yet stopped done aesculapian attention, a batch of harm had already been done. During kid delivery, she had prolonged labour truthful overmuch that she astir died.

“After each the struggles, she survived, but each clip she becomes pregnant, she either miscarries the babe oregon ends up having a stillbirth. Since then, I person vowed ne'er to enactment pistillate circumcision (FGM) nether immoderate guise.”

The accepted ruler of Ezza-Inymagu assemblage and vice president of the Ebonyi State Traditional Rulers Council, EzeLinus Nwizi, successful his submission noted that the full Izhi Clan, made up of 3 section authorities areas: Abakaliki, Ebonyi, and Izzi, had already initiated moves from their communal ancestral location successful Amagu, Abakaliki to outlaw the signifier of FGM.

Nwizi called connected his subjects to clasp the run for its full abandonment, assuring that they volition permission nary chromatic unturned successful sportfishing retired perpetrators and their collaborators and manus them implicit to due authorities.