{"id":38856,"date":"2019-02-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-clamps-down-on-dealers-in-skin-bleaching\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:50:08","slug":"police-clamps-down-on-dealers-in-skin-bleaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-clamps-down-on-dealers-in-skin-bleaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Police clamps down on dealers in skin bleaching products in Southern Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say skin products containing hydroquinone and a mixture of lotions known as \u201cMukorogo\u201d  increase the risk of getting skin cancer once applied.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Region Police Commander (RPC), ACP Jean Claude Kajeguhakwa thanked residents for cooperating with them. \u201cWhen we started confiscating skin bleaching products, sellers adopted new ways of selling them at home but we thank those who helped us, giving us reports on such people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>ACP Kajeguhakwa added that the change in looks also jeopardizes security as the identity of individuals tends to change from the original physical appearance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Southern Province yesterday clamped down on businesses dealing in skin bleaching products, in Huye and Ruhango districts, confiscating over 470 different kinds of lotions and soaps used in skin bleaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38856","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38856"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38856"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}