Mr Oliver Osi, the lawmaker representing Ivo State Constituency in Ebonyi House of Assembly has called for stakeholders’ collaboration to check the spate of Female Genital Mutilation in Ebonyi. The lawmaker who is the House Committee Chairman on Health, made the remark during a one-day training workshop for media practitioners on gender-based violence, sexual reproductive health rights and advocacy. In a paper presentation entitled: “Overview of Reproductive Health, Women Sexual and Reproductive Rights,” Dr Joseph Agboeze described reproductive health as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. Agboeze, a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, noted that reproductive health is not merely the absence of disease or disorder of the reproductive process. He listed the traditional harmful practices to include female genital mutilation and cuttings, early marriage, widowhood rites and widow’s right infringement and female disinheritance.

Source: Punch August 27, 2018 20:37 UTC