Amb. Endee  Clarifies  The Ban  on FGM

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The Liberian Culture Ambassador, Queen Juli Endee has provided clarity on Female Genital Mutilation ban (FGM), says the banned does not affect the sande practice  but but stop the genitals mutilation aspect of the traditional schools. 

Speaking to group of Journalists at the UNWomen  Gender Sensitive Reporting on Female Genital Mutilation journalists training  during the week in Monrovia, she said Montserrado County and Grand Cape Mount have finally banned the FGM  to be followed  by other counties  after  their  successfully  performance of the ritual sacrifices. 

“We have 11 Counties that are practicing   the FGM, for Montserrado  and Cape Mount,  we have done our traditional rituals sacrifices    with  our  ancestors  which allowed us  to come to such decisions”, Juli Endee  disclosed.

Juli noted that Sande school is one of the oldest  traditional  institutions  across  the World  but the  lack of education  has made many people  to explain  things  contrary.

“We have three kinds of Sande Societies,   the  Mua sande is practiced by Muslim, Zoebar sande  is practice  by the mask and  Kpowah sande  is a practice involving initiation without mutilation”, she stated.

According  to her, they are banning  the Mua, and  Zoebar but will continue  the practice of Kpowah to teach  their  inheritance  their culture  as it’s  meant to educate  patriotism,  skills, royalty  among  others so as they can’t  lose the culture. 

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