Women leaders have challenged the government to stop female genital mutilation noting that it is retrogressive.
Nominated MCA Lydia Odhiambo, while speaking at a Kisumu hotel, noted that such practices still existed yet they were retrogressive behaviours needed to be shunned.
She challenged leaders to come up with strong measures in seeing that women were not getting circumcised.
She noted that female genital mutilation was unethical and retrogressive pattern yet some communities were still practicing.
Odhiambo noted that through intermarriages, such practices would be copied with communities in satisfying the marriage, yet it was a retrogressive behaviour that ought not to be allowed amongst ladies.
“We need to reenergise by not allowing our women to pursue such retrogressive behaviours in the name of cultures, as such acts were backward and were of no good to women,” said Odhiambo.
Nominated MCA Farida Salim stated that female genital mutilation should not be allowed to be practiced.
She challenged women to shun FGM as it was of no good to them and needed to be shunned.
“Female genital mutilation is retrogressive and let’s joins hands in shunning it away,” said Salim