The government has been urged to change tactics it’s using to fight female genital mutilation FGM, this is according to nominated MCA Janet Waithera.
The MCA in Nakuru said that despite the efforts directed towards fighting the vice, little gains have been achieved as those who are still practicing the tradition have come up with new ways of continuing with it.
“Some parents are practicing FGM underground. They take their daughters to their relatives living far away where it is performed on them. It is not easy for one to know. In some instances, some fathers are left in the dark of what is going on. The tactics need to change,” she said.
While speaking to this writer in Nakuru, the MCA said more need to be done in educating the communities that still uphold FGM on its effects and the need to do away with it.
Instead, the communities need to be given other alternatives of initiation that supplement and are in line with this tradition.
“We need also to involve older women from these communities by bringing them on board whereby they will be advising parents and most important the girls when they reach the age where they are forced to undergo FGM,” Waithera said.