At least 3,000 couples were screened before 1,520 were selected as first batch of the exercise, said the governor.
Wedding will be sponsored for the remaining couples in future, he added.
"We decided to make it in batches so that we will do everything diligently," he assured.
Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammadu Sanusi commended Kano state government for sponsoring the mass wedding, saying the gesture would help less privileged.
Sanusi assured that the emirate council would continue to support any government's programme that would better up the lives of people of Kano.
Commander General of the Kano State Hisbah Board, Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, said according to the agreement entered between government and the grooms, nobody would divorce his wife without permission of Hisbah board.
The state Commissioner for Local Government, Murtala Sule Garo, said about N200m was spent for the mass wedding programme, with couples from each of the Kano’s 44 local government areas, unlike in previous mass weddings.
Garo explained that, government decentralized the programme with a view to empowering local carpenters who were contracted to make the funiture for the brides.
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Source: Daily Trust
21 comments:
I wish them all the best. Hope they can cater for the wives they r marrying.
Long live LIB
Nonsense!.
To each his own.
Congrats to the newly wedded.
. ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
Low IQ people, low life's.
I ask again, are these northerners okayyyyy? what's the govt business with marriages for Pete's sake? how much have they invested in agriculture for their ppl?
SMH...
MARRIAGE AND SEX IS THEIR NUMBER 1 PRIORITY... BACKWARD PEOPLE
Chai hausa people sha, so for this recession na marriage be their problem.always wondering why lord lugard amalgamated us with this pple, we are so different frm them. On a parallel line with them. Na niger him for amalgamate them with.
Is than am empowerment?
Sponsoring marriage.
When there are a lot of unemployed youths.
interesting. may God bless him
This is another proof of the Islamization of the country. Are there no less privileged Christians in Kano? They are spending the state money only on Muslims, yet they make everybody pay tax. Rubbish!!!
This is another proof of the Islamization of the country. Are there no less privileged Christians in Kano? They are spending the state money only on Muslims, yet they make everybody pay tax. Rubbish!!!
gd 4 dem
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
Seen
Lib addict#just passing#
These people are just full of shit mtcheeew
Madness.... Now I know how daft some leaders are.
See what they have them , bed to continue having sex and producing children. Backward elements, all they care about is producing children that they can't take care of. Silly ass. Smh
That's a strategy to populate the north because of election
Who got the contract? 200 million. Choi!! Did they feed the entire state for a day breakfast lunch and dinner and also dress them for the occasion???. Hian!!
Na to start dey reproduce like fowl... see underage people they're wedding
Later they'd use population to retain power.
I soo weep for 'lizeria'...like they'll say
Spending 200 million on mass wedding is stupidity. What sense those it make spending such amount of money on mass wedding instead of creating job. They just gave them fish instead of teaching them how to fish. My humble opinion .
Great Idea. God bless them. Marriage is a noble vocation but unfortunately many young men cannot afford the institution of marriage and instead these lovely girls would have been married off to aged men as 3rd 4th wives. In the case of Christian girls, they roam around going from one sugar daddy to another while waiting for their "boyfriend" to come up with funds for traditional marriage.
I wish my fellow Igbo Governors would do the same to assist the able bodied young men who cannot afford bride price and traditional marriage expenses talk less set up a new home. They will be able to support their wives of course, they just cannot find the money to provide adequate dowry to the in-law and of course no one will give their daughter free of charge... I wouldn't.
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