Nimba County — A whole bunch of veteran ladies in Nimba County are threatening to return to the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which has been banned in Liberia by authorities and building companions.
The ladies’s threat adopted the replacement of Culture Ambassador Juli Endee, whom the ladies describe as their daughter.
Madam Jui Endee, a national cultural icon, has been replaced by notorious artist and performer Kekula Kamara. Kamara is known for his role in the notorious tv drama Malawala-Balawala in the Eighties.
However the ladies of Nimba, who gathered in stout numbers currently in the county, referred to as on President Joseph Boakai to reinstate their daughter, or else, they are going to erect roadblocks and return to FGM practices across all 19 administrative districts in the 2d most populated county of Liberia.
They talked about Amb. Juli Endee, who privately runs the Liberia Crusaders for Peace, is their most attention-grabbing hope, so the President need to reinstate her.
In accordance to them, despite electing the Team spirit Event to vitality in 2023, quite a lot of the ministerial positions are being given to residents from President Boakai’s native Lofa County, while most attention-grabbing a few Nimbaians possess benefited from jobs in the brand new administration.
The ladies additionally threatened to rob the female masked dancer or country devil to the Executive Mansion on Thursday morning in philosophize.
Addressing reporters, Oretha Bartuah and Edith Suah, heads of the aggrieved ladies community, talked about their gathering will entice the consideration of both the authorities and the area community.
They abet that the female devil (female camouflage dancer) will most attention-grabbing return to the bush by re-instating Ambassador Juli Endee.
The world community, including UN Females, the United Countries Population Fund, and other UN organizations last yr engaged veteran ladies from across the country to stop FGM practices. Aloof, it sounds as if if the authorities would now not answer to their are looking ahead to of, they are going to return to the bush college the set up the clitoris of girls and youthful ladies are cut to cut sexual pleasure and protect away from promiscuity in marriage.
However campaigners towards the practice, including the UN, describe FGM as unsightly and lethal, as a whole bunch, if now not thousands, possess change into victims.
The ladies threaten to traipse to college campuses and marketplaces to recruit ladies for the bush college.
Since their assertion, there has been no response from the Nimba administration.
