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Tuesday, October 21, 2003
BY BEAUTTAH OMANGA
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Girl circumcision rife in hospitals
Nurses at the government hospital in Kisii town are circumcising girls despite a government ban on the practice, a councillor claimed yesterday.
The Gusii county council chairman, Mr Francis Nyambega, stunned residents during this year�s Kenyatta Day celebrations at Gusii Stadium, when he said Female Genital Mutilation was being carried out secretly.
"I am a leader like you but I am telling you to stop immediately subjecting your daughters to the practice. The tradition is not only repugnant but out dated," he said, and called for the arrest of nurses carrying out the practice and parents who subjected their daughters to it.
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