Statistics have shown that the scourge of genital mutilation is still endemic in Nigeria, despite the United Nations (UN) treaty against the violation of girl-child’s rights in society.
This uncivilised exercise is very much into play at various levels in the nation, be it urban or rural
in the localised environment, without restitution to the female folks.
Consequently, many are left to suffer the ripple effects of contacting various degrees of unreported ailments after circumcision, while some have accepted the fate of perpetual trauma, depression, low self esteem among their peers in the committee of friends.
African superstitious and unsubstantiated fallacies to female genital decapitation have done more harm beyond what the optical eye could imagine.
I pronounced those who fell to these antics of unpopular empirical subjugation as “Heroines of African Genital Genocide,” because most victims never survived to tell the bitter story. The girl-child was forced to consume the sour grape of genital excision without an option of negotiations with the god’s of African traditional heritage.
African culture has treated their female folks between the age brackets of zero to 15 in a most unfair, bizarre wrapped with utter contempt and disrespect to them.
The battle of liberating an African girl-child today is the battle for the survival of their souls and freedom. No girl child should be subjected to such emotional and physical torture under this novel digital age. ‘’Say no to Genital Mutilation’’
This can be referred to as an unconditional and unconstitutional rape of female gender in Africa. There has been a series of editorials and legislations in our modern-day society to prevent and abolish genital mutilation, but the reverse has been the case without the desired successes.
These categories of female genders and their wards in Africa and Nigeria, in particular, have been consistently hypnotised to swallow the bitter pills of genital mutilation without realising the grave consequences there