The Kano State Hisbah Board is set to commence the screening of prospectives couples ahead of the planned mass wedding programme in the state.
The Board’s Deputy Commander General, Sheikh Mujahedeen Aminudeen disclosed this in a telephone interview with our reporter on Friday.
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He said the prospective couples comprising 1,500 females are 1,500 males would undergo the screening with a view to ascertaining their health status.
The state government under the leadership of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf will soon conduct the special mass wedding programme.
“The couples include 3,000 widows, divorcees and spinsters comprising 1,500.females and 1,500 men,” he said.
According to him, preparations had gone as the selected couples would come from the less privileged parents as part effort to support them marry off their daughters.
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According to the Deputy Commander, the state government would provide furniture, foodstuffs, clothes for the ceremony, pay N100,000 dowry in addition to providing N100,000 capital to the brides to enable them engage in businesses of their choice.
“Each bride is expected to receive a set of beds with mattresses and pillows, as well as N100,000 cash to start up a business of her after collecting N100,000 dowry from the governmen,” he said.
Aminudeen said all prospective couples are also expected to undergo medical screening which include HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, genotype and drug test screening among others.
The medical screening is also mandatory as it will enable the Hisba board and each partner to know the health status of their partners before the marriage is conducted or solemnized.
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The screening is part of the prerequisite arrangement of the mass wedding proceedings and it’s compulsory because anybody who fails to show up for screening will be or is automatically disqualified.
Recall that the administration of former Governor Rabi’u Kwankwaso introduced the mass wedding programme during his second tenure as part of an effort to check prostitution especially among young women or girls whose parents lack the financial wherewithal to marry off their daughters in the state.
