{Some youth from Rusizi and Nyamasheke district of Western Province are said to be bribing local leaders to doctor their natural age upwards so they can get married.
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It is said that falsifying documents to increase their ages is done in collaboration with parents in case they think a teenage girl could be attracted to sexual relations that could make her a single mother. Young men to marry those young girls are also brought into the picture.
One resident from the area who talked to Radio Rwanda said; “Parents encourage girls to forge age, saying they are helping her getting married at an early age and avoid becoming a single mother,” he said.
“We know that they go to the sector to get their ages altered upwards,” said another resident.
Another young man from Rusizi district said “Sometimes a boy who impregnates an 18-year old girl helps her to alter her age so that they can marry to avoid the long arm of the law and cut-off other men who would take his lover.”
Ntivuguruzwa Gervais, the executive secretary responsible for marital status registration in Kamembe sector said that he has never seen anyone paying to get age alteration.
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