By Ivan Ssenabulya<\/p>\n
Police in Kween district have arrested 19 people in a joint operation with the army for performing Female Genital Mutilation on girls.<\/p>\n
This follows a general Inquiry file opened up, to investigate the vice in the region.<\/p>\n
According to Sipi region police spokesperson, Rogers Taitika the operation in Benyini, Kaprolon town councils and Kosil sub-county netted a 50 year old woman.<\/p>\n
50 year Cherop Irene is said to be a known performer of the illegal act in the district.<\/p>\n
This comes after a newspaper report that revealed that 100 girls were cut in December, last year in Kwen district.<\/p>\n
FGM was made a crime in Uganda in 2010, under the prohibition of FGM act and it attracts a maximum sentence of 10 years for committing the act and 7 years for abetting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Ivan Ssenabulya Police in Kween district have arrested 19 people in a joint operation with the army for performing Female Genital Mutilation on girls. This follows a general Inquiry file opened up, to investigate the vice in the region. According to Sipi region police spokesperson, Rogers Taitika the operation in Benyini, Kaprolon town councils and Kosil sub-county netted a 50 year old woman. 50 year Cherop Irene is said to be a known performer of the illegal act in the district. This comes after a newspaper report that revealed that 100 girls were cut in December, last year in Kwen district. FGM was made a crime in Uganda in 2010, under the prohibition of FGM act and it attracts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}