Not qualified to say ‘I do’: 35 Kano women fail mass wedding test over HIV, pregnancy

by Akintomiwa Agbaje

Kanos-wedding

The Kano State Hisbah Board disqualified 35 women from participating in the mass wedding organised and sponsored by the state government for testing positive to HIV or being pregnant.

They  include 19 divorcees who tested  positive to HIV and 16 others said to be pregnant.

The Vanguard reports:

Altogether, at least 1, 111 divorcees and widows from the 44 local government areas in the state were joined in matrimony at the City Central Mosque during a brief but colourful ceremony.

It is another round of mass wedding conducted by the Chief Imam of Kano Central Mosque, Professor Muhammad Zaharadeen.

The event was attended by the state Deputy Governor, Dr Umar Ganduje, along with top Islamic clerics across the state.

However, each of the grooms signed an undertaking not to divorce their spouses without recourse to the board, as contravention will attract a N50,000 fine.

Addressing the couples shortly after the ceremony, Commandant, Kano Hisbah Board, Sheik Daurawa explained that the measure was adopted to check rising cases of divorce in the state.

He said: “We cannot fold our arms and watch our heritage destroyed. What we have done remains the best in the light of several cases of divorce among couples in the state, to halt the destruction and bastardization of our heritage,” Daurawa said.

Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State  hosted the couples to a grand reception at the Government House, beamed live on radio and television stations across the country.

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