The United Nation Children’s Fund UNICEF has raised the alarm over upsurge of female Genital Mutilation in the country.
The scourge, according to the International body, had continued to rear its ugly head due to myriads of socio-cultural beliefs that vary across communities with regional and ethnic variations in prevalence.
UNICEF facilitator in Imo State, Dr. Vitus Ekeocha while speaking at a one day UNFPA-UNICEF joint programme on Elimination of the Female Genital Mutilation Accelerating Change at Isu Local Government Area, said that a National Policy and Plan of Action on Elimination of the obnoxious culture in the country 2013-2017, 2020-2024 version, is being produced.
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