{"id":23588,"date":"2016-02-29T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T09:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rusizi-girls-bribe-their-way-into-age-alteration\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:24:57","slug":"rusizi-girls-bribe-their-way-into-age-alteration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rusizi-girls-bribe-their-way-into-age-alteration\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusizi girls bribe their way into age alteration for earlier marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{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.<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nIt 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.<\/p>\n<p>One resident from the area who talked to Radio Rwanda said; \u201cParents encourage girls to forge age, saying they are helping her getting married at an early age and avoid becoming a single mother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that they go to the sector to get their ages altered upwards,\u201d said another resident.<\/p>\n<p>Another young man from Rusizi district said \u201cSometimes 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10684 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mu_murenge_wa_kamembe_muri_site_ahitwa_kurya_mbere.jpg\" alt=\"A location of Kamembe sector called &#039;Ku rya mbere&#039; popularly known for age alteration for early marriages\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{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. } 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23588"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23588"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}