Anti-FGM board has called for more sensitization programmes to educate locals on the health risks associated with female genital mutilation.
According to anti-FGM board Programme Director Lucy Mongony, local communities only view the practice as only against the law, forgetting that the vice is a life-threatening and outdated culture that needs to be discarded.
Mongony further said that although the government is more committed to sensitizing the communities still rooted to the practice, it would also not hesitate to take necessary legal action against the promoters of the vice.
She urged local politicians and especially women at the county level to not only publicly speak on the vice but to also closely with other key stakeholders in curbing the cultural practice.
“If we are to eradicate this vice then there is need for sustained campaigns and awareness against FGM among local communities that still practice it,” she said.
Mugony added that the board will be using religious leaders and the local chiefs under the Nyumba Kumi initiatives to sensitise the communities because they are the ones who know what is going around them.