Zamfara to Earmark N40million To Facilitate Mass Wedding, Helping Indegenes Find Love

The Zamfara Government has earmarked N40 million to
facilitate a mass wedding, organised by the Association of
Widows and Divorcees in the state.
The Chairman of the Zamfara State Hisbah Commission, Dr
Atiku Zawiyya, made the disclosure in an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Gusau.
He said that the State Government decided to assist the
widows association to help the body to tackling its
problems.
The chairman noted that the activities of the association
were in line with the tenets of Islam and the promotion of
the Shari’a.
Zawiyya explained that the State Government supported
the initiative of the association to help in its effort to
reduce immorality in society.
He called on wealthy individuals to continue to assist the
activities of the association as government alone could not
do everything.
The secretary of the association, Malam Sani Usman, said
the money, if released by the government, would be used in
sponsoring the marriages of more than 200 widows,
divorcees, less-privileged and orphans.
He said that part of the money would be used to assist
some couples to start businesses to sustain their
marriages.
Usman recalled that no fewer than 200 couples had
benefited from the programme in the past three years.