According to the Daily
Trust, Kano state has sponsored about five thousand marriages since 2012 when
the programme was first introduced with one-thousand couples in the first
batch. The divorced and widowed people across the state were among the first
batch.
Over 260 couples became
happy parents of newborn babies after they got married in the Kano mass wedding
during the last two years, the state Hisbah Board reported.
Hisbah commandant-general,
Sheik Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, reported this information when he received the
Emir of Deba, Gombe State, Alhaji Abubakar Waziri Muhammad, who paid him a
courtesy visit on his way to Saudi Arabia for the lesser Hajj.
“The state has married out
a total of 4, 922 widows, and God has blessed the marriage with many children.
So far, we have a total of 260 children from these marriages,” Daurawa said.
When it was first
introduced, government said the programme was aimed at reducing the rising
number of divorce rate in the state in order to provide the women with stable
homes, financial and social security, and to reduce the number of those in the
streets fending for themselves.
The marriage, which took
place at the Emir of Kano’s place, was witnessed by thousands of people across
the country.
The Hisbah Board had called
for prospective suitors and subsequently screened interested candidates for
HIV/AIDS before allowing them to get married. The state and local governments
jointly sponsored the kayan daki.
It was made clear to
anybody who married through this channel that he would not be allowed to
divorce his wife without permission from the Hisbah Board.
Daurawa said the programme
had been extended to neighbouring states like Katsina, Kaduna and Gombe.
Daily Trust
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