Kenyas have been shocked by a report aired on one KTN on Tuesday showing parents from Garissa County being subjected to the illegal Female Genital Mutilation.

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According to the expose', women are the ones performing this illegal act which has been banned to curb infant and mothers mortality rate due to complication during child birth.

In the report, girls as young as nine years are given out for FGM with the consent of the parents, with the old tradition of men not marrying uncircumcised girls high among men. 

"This practice cannot end with the Somalis. They practice it wherever they are, even those who reside abroad like America. Men cannot marry a girl who has not been circumcised as the often look out on the night of marriage and they run away if the woman is not circumcised," said one man who sought anonymity.

Over the years, the practice has been diminishing after the practice was banned, but the recent findings proof otherwise.

Anti-FGM Board has since been formed to ensure the practice which is mostly done during school holidays has been eradicated completely.

According to the Chairperson of the board, Linah Chebii Kilimo, the practice was termed illegal as it led to deaths due to excessive bleeding.

"We call that action mutilation not circumcision since it is weird. The ladies subjected to the practice often die during the process due to excessive bleeding. If lucky to survive after the cut, they experience complications during child birth where many die. Any person caught aiding or performing the action is arrested and prosecuted since it is illegal," says Chebii, a former minister in previous governments.

The practice seems not to have ended as some communities like the Maasai and the Somalis have not shunned from the illegal cut. In 2014, a chief in Narok was arrested for giving her daughter to FGM.

Kilimo was appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta to chair the Board as she also escaped narrowly being subject to the cut by fleeing.