Female genital mutilation has no health benefit, an NGO, MAI initiative for Human Development, declared in Eyio, Ekiti State on Thursday.
Its Project Officer, Mr. Caleb Obisesan, said at a sensitisation programme it organised that the mutilation often led to long-term physical and psychology trauma.
The sensitisation was on menstrual hygiene.
Obisesan described female genital mutilation as the partial or total removal of the female external genital, or other injury done to it and its functions.
He said girls and women who went through the mutilation often experienced long-term health consequences which include scaring, cysts, abscesses and other tissue damages.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NGO conducted the sensitisation at Eyio Community High School.
It was targeted Senior Secondary students of both sexes on the harmful effects of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as well as ways to maintain healthy and safe menstrual hygiene.
The students later pledged to be FGM champions and declared to join in the fight to end the practice.
Speaking with NAN, Obisesan said the sensitisation was taken to the grassroots to raise some Anti-FGM champions.
He noted that the fight against FGM would soon be won, noting that it was getting louder at the grassroots. (NAN
