Nairobi, Oct. 18 -- When registration of persons officers from the government visited her school in 1981, Ms Mueni Mutunga innocently backdated her birthday by a year to get the document her peers were getting.
The allure of being declared an adult was irresistible and the peer pressure from other girls left her holding an ID card that showed she was a year older.
Two years later, she successfully corrected the mistake to reflect her real age and even proceeded to acquire other documents like her passport using the corrected ID.
Then the high school mistake came back to haunt her in 1996 after the government introduced the new generation identification cards. On applying for replacement, the ID card she was issued with indicated the olde...