THE Kano State Government has confirmed that arrangements have been concluded to marry off 1,520 women under its mass wedding programme. The State Commissioner for Local Government, Alhaji Murtala Sule Garo, disclosed this at a ceremony for the distribution of empowerment tools to youths under the Ganduje Mass Economic Empowerment Programme (G-MEEP), saying that funds for the proposed mass wedding had been released. According to him, over 4,000 prospective couples have been registered for the mass wedding by the Kano State Hisbah Board, and the 1,520 women to be married soon are in the first batch. It will be recalled that the Mass wedding programme was introduced by the KwanKwaso/Ganduje administration when Kwankwaso was the governor and the current governor Abdullahi Ganduje was the deputy.