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UGANDA: Traditional Surgeons To Get Government Salary

Traditional surgeons in Kapchorwa and Bukwo districts among other areas will start receiving government salaries in a bid to discourage them from practicing Female Genital Mutilation among girls.

Government is now seeking the first batch of 400 million shillings from Parliament to facilitate payment for the surgeons to abandon the practice.

Female Genital Mutilation is widely carried out in over 20 districts of Uganda including Bukwo, Kapchorwa and Nakapipirit.

The Minister of Uganda for Gender, Labor and Social Development, Gabriel Opio says while the government tries to ban the practice, its important that these surgeons engage in self sustaining activities to deter them from practicing the barbaric act.

The Minister was appearing before the Parliamentary Gender committee in Kampala today.

The Parliament passed the Female Genital Mutilation bill into a law in December last year.

The Female Genital Mutilation Act outlaws the practice and provides for penalties such as life imprisonment for aggravated mutilation but unfortunately the practice is still going on because the people in the districts mentioned love the practice.

SOURCE: UGPulse

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DATE: 26/04/2010

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