Let’s dump these toxic ‘traditional’ cultures, ways
Mr Gilbert Kirwa Maina with a photo of his son, who died of septic shock following an infection obtained from a botched circumcision, during an interview at his home in Tarakwa, Uasin Gishu County, Kenya on December 29, 2022. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG
The Daily Nation of January 9 reported that 16 boys were in hospital to get treatment for severe bacterial infection resulting from traditional circumcision.
A few days later, the same paper carried a story about a traditional ritual that recently circumcised boys are forced to undergo in some counties. The initiates, the report said, are forced to have sexual intercourse with women as a cleansing ritual. So the services of sex workers are sought.
