From Desmond Mgboh, Kano
Kano State Hisbah Board has said that its next batch of free mass wedding programme would include professional groups such as journalists and lawyers in the state.
About 1,800 couples, mostly from the under-privileged class, were beneficiaries of the last batch of the programme by the Kano State Government.
Speaking yesterday, the Commander General of the Hisbah Board, Aminu Daura, said his Command had reserved 50 slots of the free mass wedding programme for journalists and media workers, who may wish to participate.
The Hisbah Commander-General added that the Board would also include legal practitioners and health workers in the next batch of the exercise following the success it recorded in the previous exercise.
He added that the essence of the mass wedding programme is to entrench moral values in the society and reduce immorality among young men and women.
Speaking further, he indicated that the board has resolved to establish Hisbah Academy.
He said the Academy would be set up in collaboration with Bayero University, Kano (BUK), Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano (YUMSUK), Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Aminu Kano College of Islamic Legal Studies.
“When established, the Hisbah Academy would be an institution where formal knowledge and skills pertaining to Hisbah work would be taught and certificates would be awarded to its graduates,” he said.