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Even though laws were enacted since 2011 prohibiting the practice, law enforcement agencies have not been responding to advocacy efforts of government and civil society organisations.
The Commissioner of Police gave the directive in Ado Ekiti, while speaking at a capacity building workshop organised by Hacey Health Initiative for Law Enforcement Officers on Female Genital Mutilation. Mr Adesina said the scourge had destroyed many homes and lives, and that security agencies as enforcers of the laws would not allow the illegality to continue in Ekiti unabated.“This workshop is a welcome development because it deals with stopping Female Genital Mutilation, one of the bad practices in our society,” he said.
“It is sad that nobody had been arrested or prosecuted. FGM keeps increasing in Ekiti despite the sensitisation by government,” she said.
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