The
Sokoto State Government on Sunday said it had concluded arrangements to conduct
the mass wedding of 100 couples with N32 million by April this year.
The
state Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Mani Maishinko, disclosed this
during a chat with journalists in Sokoto. According to him, the state
government is still waiting for the report of the main committee set up for the
purpose of planning the mass wedding.
“The
main committee is overseeing the activities of other subcommittees like those
on security and medical screening, among others.
“Afterwards,
we would organise a one-week training on skills acquisition for the would-be
couples,” Maishinko explained.
According
to the report, each of the brides would be given a bed, mattresses, beddings
and other household items and each of the bride and groom would also be given
seed capital to enable them start small scale businesses; The state government
had also taken measures to conduct the planned mass wedding in accordance with
Islamic tenets.
Credit:
thisday
my opinion
and Nigerians are in recession. thirty two million naira for mass wedding! we pray their union will last.
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