The Commander-General of the Kano State Hisbah Board, Sheikh Aminu Daurawa, announced that in the upcoming mass wedding in the state, 50 slots have been allocated for journalists to have their loved ones participate if they desire.
Sheikh Daurawa made this announcement during a press briefing in Kano yesterday.
Following the success of the last mass wedding, which saw about 1,800 couples married off, the Board decided to extend the invitation to interested members of professional groups and trade unions.
Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa stated that: “We have allocated 50 slots to journalists and other members of the media who are interested in participating in the mass wedding programme”.
He hinted that the essence of the mass wedding programme is to entrench moral values in society and reduce immorality among young men and women. Sheikh Daurawa added that the Board would also include legal practitioners and health workers in the next batch of the exercise.
In a related development, the Commander-General has urged Hisbah personnel across the 44 local government areas of the State to re-commit themselves to the job or resign.
He made the call during a meeting with heads of Hisbah commands in the 44 LGAs in the State at KERD conference hall in Kano City, on Wednesday. He said the Hisbah management has since provided written guidelines to help operatives understand their roles and responsibilities.
He further explained that the Hisbah Board has collaborated with Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano (YUMSUK), Amine Kano College of Islamic Legal Studies, Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education and the Department of Islamic Studies at Bayero University, Kano (BUK), to establish a Hisbah Academy.
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.
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