Nyamira residents should fight Female Genital Mutilation as a team to make meaningful gains on the ground, reckons area Women Representative Alice Chae.
Speaking at separate events at Gachuba and Bonyamatuta wards on Monday, Chae said fighting the vice needed collective efforts from members of the community to have significant impact in the society.
She challenged residents to work with authorities by condemning the ‘primitive’ practice, and also urged them to rally behind social groups carrying civic education in the region.
“I want to ask the community to stand firm against FGM. This is one of the primitive practices that as a society we should come out and condemn it as a group. We need to accept changes and strongly fight these crimes targeting our girls,” Chae said.
“We have well-wishers and leaders who are moving around the county doing civic education on combating FGM. We must work as a team and that is why I am calling the society to come out and say no to the practice. When the community opposes it, then we are likely to curb it,” she said.
Chae caused laughter when he challenged young men to marry ladies who had not been subjected to FGM as a move of compelling the society to abandon the practice.
“And is my challenge to young men who are almost ready to get married. You can also help us fight FGM by denying ladies who have undergone FGM at this time when we all know that the practice has negative repercussions to the girl child,” she said.