End female genital mutilation in Oyo now - State Commissioner for health warns indigenes

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Commissioner for Health in Oyo State, Dr. Bode Ladipo has advised residents to desist from female genital mutilation. Ladipo who spoke while addressing

Commissioner for Health in Oyo State, Dr. Bode Ladipo has advised residents to desist from female genital mutilation.

The event had representatives of security agencies, United Nations organisations, the European Union , ministries, representatives of the state government and the media in attendance. Oyo State according research, holds the number two position among states where incidents of female genital mutilation is rampant after Lagos State.

The commissioner who added that the state government has put measures in place to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation in the state, insisted that decisive steps have been taken to get the perpetrators arrested. “In Oyo State, the rate is high, but recently it has reduced. We are taken a decisive decision against it. There are laws, it is not that there are no laws. It is the implementation that we all need. We need our law enforcement officers to enforce the laws”.

 

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