By MN Reporter
Micontrap Kenya and activists against Female Genital Mutilation has said the Kuria community will not completely shun the vice as directed by President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2022.
Kevin Mwita, activist with Micontrap Kenya said the community is closer to Tanzania where girls have been crossing over for the vice with strong stigma against those who have chosen to remain uncircumcised and fight the vice.
“We know as a community FGM will not end completely by 2022 despite the presidential decree, but efforts to meet the deadline have seen the vice reduce completely,” Mwita said.
“We have seen FGM effects and stigma reduce, but we still have elders and members of the tribe who have continue to hold on the vice,” Mwita he added.
Tobias Gatango, a member of Kuria Council of Elder said the FGM vice will end with time but not completely next year which will be similar to ear piercing as a rite of passage.
“As a community we used to pierce our ears as a rite of passage, which ended up completely. We have hope FGM will be pushed into periphery of culture and completely be abandoned,” Gitango said.
The three were speaking in Ntimaru center when they addressed school going girls on Monday during an open baraza against the vice.