Domesticate the VAPP Act in Kwara state.

In 2015 under the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration that the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPP) Act was passed into law. This particular Act specifically mentioned FGM as a criminal act.
Section 6 of the VAPP Act provides for a set of punishments for FGM. Some of these punishments include;
1. Anybody who performs or engages another to perform FGM on any person is liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 4 years or to a fine not exceeding N200,000 or to both.
2. Anybody who attempts, aids, abets, or incites another to carry out FGM is liable to a term not exceeding 2 years imprisonment or to a fine not exceeding N100,000 or to both.
Currently, the VAPP Act is only applicable in Abuja and in Anambra State and a few other states. The reason for this is that only these states has domesticated this Act. Under our system, a Federal Law cannot apply in a particular State unless and until it is domesticated in that particular State.
This lack of domestication of the VAPP Act by several States in Nigeria has made the act basically useless.