Police in Njoro are holding three women facing charges of
undergoing the ‘cut’ recently.
Also locked up in cells at Mauche Police Post is a man in
whose house the women were found nursing their fresh wounds.
Njoro Deputy Officer Commanding Police Division Gladys Madee
on Tuesday said the women aged 21, 29 and 30 underwent female genital
mutilation at Mauche Area in Nakuru County.
She said the four suspects were arrested on Monday night at
a house in Tebeswet Village in Kapkembo sub-Location.
"Police while acting on a tip-off from the public
raided the house and managed to arrest the four suspects," said Ms Madee.
Three other suspects managed to escape during the operation,
she raid.
They women, who were taken to Njoro Sub-County Hospital for
tests, were confirmed to have undergone the ‘cut’.
According to the police, five women underwent the
‘cut’ last week while another one was mutilated on Saturday.
The man in the cells, said to be the host, is husband of one
of the cut women.
FGM is rampant among communities living in Mauche, on the
outskirts of Njoro town, and the outlawed practice is manly carried out during
December holidays when schools close.
The suspects told police that they decided to undergo the
‘cut’ to avoid discrimination and intimidation from 'cut' community members.
According to Ms Madee, the police chief, the suspects will
be charged with procuring FGM while the man will face charges of abetting the
‘cut’.
Police are still pursuing the three other women and the
person who ‘cut’ them.
