Communities in Boripe and Olorunda local government areas of Osun State have collaborated with security agencies to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
The community leaders said having unanimously agreed to stop the practice, they needed security agencies to be involved because of disobedient individuals.
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The communities included Agbeyangi, Oke-Pako, Alagbado, Alagbaagbu, Erinwo, Enikanoyun, Biirofagbemi, Ota-Efun, Ayekale, and Atelewo in the two LGAs.
Officers of the Police Force, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Amotekun Corps, and vigilante groups met with the representatives of the communities during a consensus building forum facilitated by Action Health Incorporated (AHI), a nongovernmental organisation.
AHI Programme Officer, Ms. Abdulrasheed Nuriyah, reiterated that the consensus-building meeting was to ensure a collaborative effort involving law enforcement agencies to ensure the total eradication of FGM in these communities in both LGAs.
She said the objective of the meeting was also to further solicit the support of stakeholders for the total eradication of FGM in the two LGAs by engaging the law enforcement agencies within their communities to be aware of FGM as a prohibited act in Osun State that warrants punishment.
All participants signed a consensus commitment indicating their support for the eradication of FGM in their communities.
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