See How Northerners Drag Nigeria Backward: Kano Conduct Mass Wedding For 1520 Couples

The Kano State Government yesterday said it had concluded plans for the mass wedding of 1,520 prospective couples scheduled to hold today, February 26, 2017.
The Director General of the State Hisbah Board, Dr. Abba Sufi, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano.
Sufi said the wedding would be conducted in four Juma’at mosques in the Kano metropolis and at the headquarters of the 44 local government areas of the state.
He said Governor Abdullahi Ganduje was expected to attend the wedding at the Central Mosque, near the Emir of Kano’s palace, while his deputy, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, and the Speaker of the state Assembly, Mr. Kabiru Rurum, would attend the event at the Sheik Isiyaka Rabi’u‘s Mosque and Murtala Muhammed Mosque, respectively.
He said the state government had set N20,000 as dowry for each of the brides, while N15,000 would be given to each bride as support.
Sufi said the governor would also host the husbands to a reception at 2 pm while the first lady, Mrs. Hafsat Ganduje, would host the brides at 6 pm on Sunday.
He stated that the state government had assigned commissioners to attend the wedding in their respective local government areas.

It is indeed a shame to hear that just when a country is still trying to take itself out of recession, at a point where states are struggling to pay salaries, where average Nigerians leave on less than $1 per day! A certain governor still thinks it’s wise to increase the population of its own state without little or no provision for the existing population.It is provocative and disheartening the way our leaders think sometimes, anyway they say the people are like the leaders they choose.
Why would a state that generates less than 2% of its annual budget but solely depends on federal government funds to survive choose to invest on increasing its population rather than investing into things that will better their lots.
Just when states are looking inwards on how to generate revenue.
When others are encouraging family planning so as to control their population.
When states are trying to invest into capital projects.
When states are trying to provide the basic necessities of life to its populace.
Then a certain governor in a certain state whose population is the largest of all the states in Nigeria but with little or nothing to show despite the available manpower, could not think of a better thing to do rather than to join boys and girls together.
A state in which 60% of its total population are illiterates should invest into education, both formal and informal.
For how long do we have to keep breeding nuisance?
For how long do we have to keep training terrorist?
For how long do we have to keep leaving like destitute?
For how long do we continue to give birth to kids we have no plan for?
For how long shall we continue to deceive ourselves?
Dear Kano state governor why not invest in agriculture, develop infrastructure, build more schools and empower your youths.
Then they’ ll become men and get wives for themselves without waiting for governors to marry them.