More
than N100 million has been earmarked for the wedding of another batch
of 1,000 divorcees and widows scheduled for January, Kano State
Government has said.
Speaking
in an interview in Kano on Thursday, the Director-General of the state
Hisbah Board, Alhaji Abba Sufi said the board had “since started
preparation in readiness for the mass wedding”.
“The
screening of the prospective couples has commenced in earnest in all
the 44 local government areas of the state,’’ he said. Sufi said
prospective couples must undergo medical checks, including HIV and AIDS,
genotype and hepatitis tests, among others.
He
said following the decentralisation of the programme, each of the
councils would hold the wedding prayer session for 21 couples.
According
to him, the session for the remaining 76 couples would be performed in
Kano. Sufi said the state government would pay N20,000 dowries to each
of the brides, in addition to providing essential items for the couples.
“The
board has written to wealthy individuals and corporate organisations
for their contributions towards the success of the programme,” Sufi
said.
In July last year 250 widows and divorcees were joined under the second batch of the mass wedding. [NAN]
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