By Yiep Joseph<\/p>\n
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Vice President for Infrastructure, Taban Deng Gai, has called on South Sudanese communities to put an end to early and forced marriages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking at the 40th-day prayers for the late Bior Ajang, highlighted that many young girls continue to suffer from the impact of child marriages.<\/p>\n \u201cMy message to people of Jonglei and other communities in this function: please stop marrying under age; small girls cannot be married.” Taban said<\/p>\n He urged communities in Jonglei in particular and other communities in general to focus on taking their girls to school to graduate and later get married.<\/p>\n \u201cPlease stop marrying small girls; let them first complete their university,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n VP Taban pointed out that some communities mistakenly believe that mature, educated women are difficult to manage, leading to the preference for younger brides.<\/p>\n He stressed that marrying educated individuals is a wise choice, as they contribute positively to family life.<\/p>\n He also addressed the issue of high bride prices, urging communities to reconsider their demands.<\/p>\n \u201cThese issue of demanding for 200, 300, 500 cows is not good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In his part, Biar Mading Biar, Chairperson of the Twic East Community, echoed Taban’s sentiments, calling for unity and urging the government to support communities affected by flooding.<\/p>\n In 2022 The First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, married off his daughter, Meer\u00a0to William Deng with 45 cows as dowry in a customary marriage in Juba, which was described as a symbolic gesture of cultural commitment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Yiep Joseph Vice President for Infrastructure, Taban Deng Gai, has called on South Sudanese communities to put an end to early and forced marriages. Speaking at the 40th-day prayers for the late Bior Ajang, highlighted that many young girls continue to suffer from the impact of child marriages.[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/A-photo-of-Cows-at-grazing-point-in-Tereka-County-symbolizing-a-mode-of-dowries-in-some-communities.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29194,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191\/revisions\/29194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}