A Mandera man and a nurse will serve five years in jail for subjecting a girl to female genital mutilation (FGM).
Ali Abdullahi Mohamed,a guardian was found guilty of willfully and unlawfully subjecting a 17-year-old girl to FGM.
The incident happened on November 20, 2021 in Bulla Kamor location, Mandera town.
Hawa Ibrahim Mursal,a nurse was also found guilty of performing FGM on the child against her will.
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Against will
The girl had come to Mandera from Eldoret to visit her relatives
Mohamed housed her before meeting her father, who crossed into Mandera from Ethiopia.
The girl told the court that on November 20, Mohamed drove her to the Mother and Child Clinic in Mandera town after she complained of chest pain.
At the clinic, SO was introduced to Mursal, a nurse.
The nurse injected her with a drug before cutting her genitals with a pair of scissors.
Afterwards Mohamed picked her up and took her back to his home.
Latter on,the girl sneaked out of the home and made a report at Mandera Police Station .
The station commander (OCS) offered to house her at the station.
Mohamed was arrested at the station when he went looking for her.
Mursal was picked up from the clinic where she worked.
Mandera Senior Resident Magistrate Kimani Mukabi concluded that the family orchestrated a scheme to get SO to undergo FGM.
“Mohamed was an active participant in this evil scheme who through premeditation and while acting at the behest of other actors, managed to booby-trap the complainant into undergoing [the] harmful cultural rite of FGM,” Mukabi said.
He said Mursal’s testimony was suspicious, unreliable and contradictory.
He said “there were several unsuccessful and unconventional approaches by various agents from the accused persons so as to pass judgment in their favour”.
