rom KABIR Dankatsina
Kebbi State government has concluded arrangements to Marries off six hundred Vulnerable couples across the state.
Briefing the newsmen on Sunday evening at ministry of women affairs in Birnin Kebbi over the development, the chairman main organising committee of the event, Suleiman Muhammed Argungu (Jarman Kabi) disclosed that the wedding is slated on Thursday Feb 27 in the state capital Birnin Kebbi.
According to Argungu, the occasion is to be performed by His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Kebbi State, Comrade Nasir Idris Kauran Gwandu.
Argungu who is the former deputy governor of Kebbi State, Chief of staff and currently the national organising secretary of All Progressive Congress (APC) added that of six hundred couples, three hundred are male and three hundred female which consists of widows, unmarried girls who needed to be married but, no means to sponsor their marriages.
” Considering their situation, the governor through his wife and her foundation in collaboration with the ministry of women affairs has bought all necessary items including the dowry of N180,0000 for each bride in preparatory for the take off of the mass wedding by government” Argungu said.
These couples were selected from each of the twenty one local government areas of the state by the main and other subcommittees set up by governor Idris ” he added.
He noted that the couples have to undergo a test before the Feb 27 for authentication of their health which contained in the filled forms in the marriage agreement.
