Nyamira county women representative Alice Chae has raised concern over the continued cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the larger Kisii region.
Chae said that the increase now stands at ninety six percent and she therefore called on all stakeholders to come together and formulate measures to bring an end to the exercise.
Speaking in Nyamira on Monday, Chae called on the residents to find other ways that are much better to usher girl child into adulthood instead of letting them undergo the cut.
The women representative showed her disappointment in the fact that even when there is a law that makes the exercise illegal, it has not been followed to help save the girl child from the inhumane act.
“We have laws as a country that do not allow Female Genital Mutilation and also stipulates the punishment for anyone that takes their child for the cut. It is however still not working and we now have to change the tactics we have been using to curb the situation," she said.
"We now need to sit down as the Omogusii and choose one direction to follow on what we should do with our girl child by coming up with the procedures that they should undergo as part of initiation but not the cut,” she added.