Five circumcisers were arrested and a 10-year-old
girl rescued before the illegal cut in a swoop in Kuria West subcounty
on Friday.
Area OCPD
Evans
Wanyonyi said the girl from the Bukira clan was to officially open a Female Genital Mutilation exercise in the area.
“We were lucky to
rescue
her before she underwent the cut. She has been taken to Komotobo children's home,” said Wanyonyi.
The OCPD said four other suspects, including three circumcisers, were arrested in Kuria East subcounty last week while planning to launch the exercise there.
Kuria East deputy county commissioner Wesley
Koech
said they trailed the women after elders told them they were picked to perform FGM this season.
Koech said seven others from
Kegonga and Ntimaru intended to carry out door-to-door operations to dodge arrests.
But he said
security personnel and residents established Nyumba Kumi centres for incidents to be reports, and that a special force will work on ending the vice.
“All the suspects will be arraigned at Kehancha law courts as we pursue other suspects who escaped to Tanzania,” he said.
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