SIXTEEN girls have been retrieved from marriages in Chipata and parents ordered to pay a cow or make eight thousand bricks.This following a resolution by the Zingalume by-laws on ending child marriage steering committee in the district.By-laws steering committee secretary Induna Zingalume confirmed the development in an interview.He said teachers from various schools decided to blow the whistle after noticing that girls as young as 12 years had stopped attending classes and later discovered they were married off.The Induna said he had received reports of teachers being threatened for disclosing information of children who were married off by culprit parents.He noted that teachers who reported child marriage cases were living in fear following frightening remarks from parents who were planning to bewitch them once the rainy season start.“These parents are not happy with the teachers and the committee for not allowing them to marry off the young girls. They are also angry because of the […]
16 girls retrieved from marriages
