The United Worldwide locations Youth’s Fund (UNICEF) has raised an dismay over the lengthen in female genital mutilation amongst Nigerian women primitive 0-14.
Peter Hawkins, the UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, who raised the dismay by potential of a press commentary on Saturday, said the charge of FGM amongst the age team has risen from 16.9 per cent in 2013 to 19.2 per cent in 2018.
Stressing that Nigeria accounts for the third-best possible sequence of girls folks and ladies who have passed thru FGM worldwide, an estimated 86 per cent of females, in conserving with him “were lower forward of the age of 5, while 8 per cent were lower between ages 5 and 14.”
He added that Nigeria has an estimated 19.9 million survivors.
While the national incidence of FGM amongst women folks in Nigeria, primitive 15-49, dropped from 25 per cent in 2013 to 20 per cent in 2018, incidence amongst women primitive 0-14, he said has elevated from 16.9 per cent to 19.2 per cent in the identical interval.
Hawkins, who issued the commentary in commemoration of the enviornment Worldwide Day of Zero Tolerance of FGM, said 68 million women worldwide were estimated to be at possibility of female genital mutilation between 2015 and 2030.
Citing COVID-19, which he said has continued to prevent colleges and disrupt programmes that abet shield women, a further two million extra cases of FGM would possibly per chance perchance perchance well furthermore merely happen over the next decade.
He said FGM no longer greatest has no successfully being advantages, but it absolutely is furthermore deeply depraved to ladies and ladies folks, each and each bodily and psychologically.
Piqued that disparities in the apply exist across the country, stutter incidence, he said ranges from 62 per cent in Imo to lower than 1 per cent in Adamawa and Gombe, bringing up that “the incidence of FGM is best possible in the South East (35 per cent) and South West (30 per cent) and lowest in the North East (6 per cent).”
Hawkins said all must be on deck to total the apply which violates the females’ rights to successfully being, safety and bodily integrity.
