He said such practice brings self-esteem on children who possessed them, and increases the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. He said this yesterday while defending, before the Senate, a private member bill titled: ‘A Bill for an Act to provide for the Prohibition of Facial Mutilation’, he personally sponsored. Melaye said the era where facial marks were needed for identification with certain affiliations were long gone, as the popularity and acceptance of the practice continued to wane. He said: “These tribal marks have become emblems of disfiguration and have hindered many situations of life. Some have developed low self-esteem, they are most times treated with scorn and ridicule. “The reactions of people who interact with them on interpersonal basis somehow dampen their spirit or lower their self-esteem. They are reduced in most cases to laughing stocks in the communities and called several horrible names. “Long before the awareness programmes on AIDS, many innocent people,
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