By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
A Non-Governmental Organization, HACEY Health Initiative, has called on journalists and media practitioners to focus their campaigns on practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Osun State.
The programme Manager of HACEY Health Initiative, Oluwatomi Olunuga, made this call while fielding questions from newsmen at a press conference organised in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, recently.
Olunuga who commended the functions of the media in the development of any society urged media professionals in the state to join hands with the NGO to stamp out the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) from the state.
She explained that the HACEY Health Initiative commenced the stop-cut-project in 2020 with stakeholders in the state as regard the protection of the women and girls on FGM.
Olunuga further explained that their organization had worked with the House of Assembly, community leaders, some Non- governmental organizations and traditional rulers as part of efforts to ensure total eradication of the menace in the state.
She stressed that the Initiative had been able to organise capacity building for NGOs on their alliance for the sustainability of the programme in state.
Director, Commercial and Legal Drafting, Osun State Ministry of Justice, Barrister Kayode Titiloye reiterated that the ministry was always open for free legal services for any residents of the state on gender-based violence and Female Genital Mutations, (FGM).
He said the ministry of Justice was ready to collaborate with all the stakeholders at the local government level to address many issues affecting the people in the state.
Titiloye charged journalists to do their best in ensuring they promote and create awareness about free legal services in the interest of the masses.
He stressed that the ministry was open for those who had been victimized by being abuse or suffered from the FGM, just as he charged the media professionals in the state to protect human rights by promoting the law of people’s right.
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