{"id":17610,"date":"2019-11-05T13:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17610"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:59:28","slug":"fayemi-threatens-to-arrest-unrepentant-female-genital-mutilators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fayemi-threatens-to-arrest-unrepentant-female-genital-mutilators","title":{"rendered":"Fayemi threatens to arrest unrepentant female genital mutilators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ekiti_State\">Ekiti State<\/a> Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has said the state government won\u2019t hesitate to arrest those she described as \u201cunrepentant \u201d female genital mutilators (FGM) operating in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Fayemi said the unwholesome practice, had brought a lot of sexual damage to women through infectious diseases that destroy body sexual nerve cells, thereby causing marital crises in many homes.<\/p>\n<p>She also advised parents and guardians to always monitor the activities of their female children and wards, to reduce the scourge of rape and defilement that are on the increase in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Fayemi, who lamented the increasing rate of teenage pregnancies in the society due to lack of attention, said \u2018operation keep girls in school \u2018 policy of Governor Kayode Fayemi\u2019s government, has now outlawed expulsion of ladies who got pregnant while in school.<\/p>\n<p>The First Lady said these on Tuesday during her advocacy tour and empowerment programme for women in Ekiti West, Efon, Ijero and Ido-Osi local government areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Fayemi said: \u201cWe must at all costs stop the menaces of female genital mutilation, open defecation, domestic violence against women, child trafficking and rape, defilement and another ill against girl child and women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state Gender-Based Violence(GVB) and Child right laws have been amended. Punishment for rape is no longer 5 -year jail term but life imprisonment. Whoever makes attempt to beg for the release of a rapist stands being charged for obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not right for teenagers to engage in sexual relationships. That is why parents must monitor their female children in school. But any school girl that got impregnated, with new law will be allowed to continue her study even with the pregnancy and after delivery, she will still be allowed to continue schooling. Our girls must go to school\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Fayemi also warned women against maltreating or battering their husbands, saying the GVB law would also punish any woman found infringing on the rights of man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen should also desist from delivering babies at home or missions, always go to hospitals. You can observe that women are dying of breast cancer. Let us observe ourselves very well, even our husbands have a lot of roles to play in this, they can help us massage the breast and detect the lumps. It had happened like this in the past when men turned out to be our Messiahs\u201d, Mrs Fayemi stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has said the state government won\u2019t hesitate to arrest those she described as \u201cunrepentant \u201d female genital mutilators (FGM) operating in the state. Mrs Fayemi said the unwholesome practice, had brought a lot of sexual damage to women through infectious diseases that destroy body sexual nerve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":7342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[230,309,209],"class_list":["post-17610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-fani-kayode","tag-fayemi","tag-governor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fayemi threatens to arrest unrepentant female genital mutilators - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fayemi-threatens-to-arrest-unrepentant-female-genital-mutilators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fayemi threatens to arrest unrepentant female genital mutilators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has said the state government won\u2019t hesitate to arrest those she described as \u201cunrepentant \u201d female genital mutilators (FGM) operating in the state. 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