Anti-FGM crusaders should change tack

While attending an editors’ breakfast meeting a day before the launch of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, a revelation by one of the participants left most people with their mouths age.

The participant said a colleague had invited him to his daughter’s circumcision ceremony. He was appalled and wondered why such an educated man would subject his daughter to such a ‘retrogressive’ practice. A nurse had been called to ‘cut’ the girl in the comfort of their home.