The governor commended former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan for signing the Act prohibiting female genital mutilation in Nigeria.
Aregbesola who graced a forum on Female Genital Mutilation organised by United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), in collaboration with Shericare Foundation in Osogbo on Tuesday described the act as “primitive”.
According to Aregbesola, female genital mutilation is a bad practice borne out of primitive idea to continually dominate females in the society which must be stopped by all Nigerians.
“Everybody must work hard to ensure that the practice is done away with. Besides the damage it has done to women, it has created health challenges like acute urinary retention, delivery complications, among others.
“We have not established any scientific advantage let alone any religion supporting the practise. It is just an inhuman design to suppress the other sex.”
Sherifat, wife of the governor and President of Shericare Foundation, described female genital mutilation as primitive.
She said that if the practice continued, 2, 718, 000 girls born between 2010 and 2015 would be at risk of experiencing female genital mutilation by 2030.
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