Nigerian Woman Flees with Her Children to Avoid Them Being Circumcised

According to Vanguard, a woman has fled her home in an attempt to prevent her female children from getting circumcised and the male one from being initiated. Do these things still happen?

For refusing to get her children circumcised, a mother of three, Mrs Victoria Ijeoma Akinsanya has been forced to abscond her Festac town, Lagos residence to an unknown destination. Not only that, her younger brother Njoku Ifeanyi was beaten by hoodlums while their aged mother Mrs Celestina Njoku now lives in fear. 

Victoria hails from Imo State but her in-laws are from Itoko in Abeokuta, Ogun State. It is the custom of the family of Akinsanya to initiate their male child and circumcise the female child.